Re: Out of place
- From: tony cooper <tony_cooper213@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:35:42 -0400
On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:22:01 -0400, tony cooper
<tony_cooper213@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:43:28 -0700, "Skitt" <skitt99@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
tony cooper wrote:
"Skitt" wrote:
tony cooper wrote, in part:
I've driven American cars with
hand-brakes that you pull, and noticed English drivers pulling
hand-brakes in movies, but I wouldn't know that all cars in the UK
still use hand-brakes. The pull-type hand-brake is seen mostly on
cars with stick shift, and I haven't driven a stick for quite some
time. I've owned them, though.
There's pull-type hand brakes on both of our cars (Civic and 328i),
and neither of them has a stick-shift.
I'll stick with "usually". Will you stick with "There's pull-type
hand brakes on both of our cars"? Are you sure?
Darn tootin'. There's all sorts of gadgets on them too.
While you are referring to *a* brake on each car, "there is" sounds
like a sour note to me. I'd pull for "there are". Or, "They're" vs
"Their's".
Arggh. Not "they're". It's being around Skitt, I tell you.
--
Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida
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