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Old 07-07-2004, 04:07 PM   #3728
Tyrone Slothrop
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Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
I used the word allegedly because it was alleged. I do know that.

Hello

1-0 for the last 5 minutes.
Grammatically, you are 0-1. When you said
  • this allegedly happened to his son because he had been driven to violence.

the word "allegedly" modified what "happened to his son" -- i.e., suggesting that maybe his son wasn't really abused -- not that the father allegedly "had been driven to violence." As phrased you minimized what we did to his son, while accepting that the father had done something prompting all of this. Perhaps not what you meant, but that's what you said.
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