Re: Albert Ellis, RIP

R H Draney wrote:

Mike Lyle filted:

Paul Wolff wrote:

If you knew that, please don't bother to have read this reply.

Aha! A clear sighting of a handsome beast so scarce that it never seems
to appear in grammar books, the negative present perfect imperative. I
became aware of it first from my own lips about thirty years since. My
daughter had just committed some tiny-tot misdemeanour which would cause
Dad some inconvenience, and I heard my own voice cry out in despairing
tones, "Don't have done that!"

I see your negative present perfect imperative and raise you one, making
it a negative present perfect *progressive* imperative...were you from
Madras, you might well have instructed her "don't have been doing
that!"...

Cookies for the first person who provides the passive equivalent....r

Don't have been being done!

Where are my cookies?

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Roland Hutchinson Will play viola da gamba for food.

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