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Originally posted by ChuckElias
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Originally posted by rainmaker
Can you tell off the top of your head the Plu-Perfect Subjunctive of the verb, to screw?
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The closest I can come up with is "had have screwed". Example, "If he'd have screwed up that call, the coach would've gone ballistic."
Am I close?
See also: "The Return of an English pluperfect subjunctive?" by Trevor G. Fennell at http://ehlt.flinders.edu.au/deptlang...rs/fennell.pdf
Enjoy. 
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Chuck, I can't believe you've never heard the joke about the businessman who was sent on his first trip to Boston. His boss said, "Be sure to try the fish they call scrod. It's what they do best." So when the businessman got into the taxi, he said, "I want to go where I can get scrod." The driver said, "I thought I'd heard it all, but no one's ever asked me before in the plu-perfect subjunctive."
Dexter -- If all i have to do to get an all-expense paid trip to a tropical island, is act like I'm off my meds for a few minutes -- hey, here I go:
