What is Python?
Darren New
dnew at san.rr.com
Tue Sep 26 22:53:13 EDT 2000
Grant Edwards wrote:
> >Can you give an example of that?
> I run.
> "run" is the plural present-tense form of the verb: "They run."
Uh, not really. "You run" (using you singular). It's just that 3rd-person
singular is conjugated differently, not the first-person singular.
> But, in past-perfect you do use the plural "have" instead of the singular
> "has" when the subject is "I":
>
> I have run. He has run.
Huh. That *is* interesting. Yes. I think you're right. :-)
> >We do. "Thee" and "thou" and "thine". ;-)
> I'd phrase it "we used to".
That's why I put on the smiley, yah. :-)
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