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Sentence #244667

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sacredceltic sacredceltic August 5, 2010 August 5, 2010 at 9:45:31 AM UTC link Permalink

This sentence is incorrect.

blay_paul blay_paul August 5, 2010 August 5, 2010 at 9:55:07 AM UTC link Permalink

Actually, no, it isn't. It is rather old-fashioned English, though.

sacredceltic sacredceltic August 5, 2010 August 5, 2010 at 10:07:17 AM UTC link Permalink

Pff ! You would say ANYTHING to disagree with me, wouldn't you ?

blay_paul blay_paul August 5, 2010 August 5, 2010 at 10:16:01 AM UTC link Permalink

Only when you're wrong. See, for example, the following sentence from Lorna Doone (first published in 1869)

"And for more than an hour she made believe not to know what there was for dinner."

sacredceltic sacredceltic August 5, 2010 August 5, 2010 at 10:21:21 AM UTC link Permalink

I won't take you to the "Google challenge"!

blay_paul blay_paul August 5, 2010 August 5, 2010 at 10:24:10 AM UTC link Permalink

Who said anything about Google? I picked up the book from my shelf, read it from cover to cover, and typed out one of the sentences in it.

Obviously that makes the sentence FAR more significant than if I'd just done a Google search on "made believe not" and found exactly the same information from a public domain copy of the book online.

sacredceltic sacredceltic August 5, 2010 August 5, 2010 at 10:31:31 AM UTC link Permalink

I was kidding. The "Google challenge" is a joke...
Keep your sense of humour, at all times, BP!

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She made believe not to hear him yesterday.

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