Subj : Stephen Leecok
To   : Ardith Hinton
From : alexander koryagin
Date : Sun May 20 2018 04:13:35

Hi, Ardith Hinton!
I read your message from 18.05.2018 12:42

 ak>>  Looking at "We thought it a fine idea," I thought
 ak>>  that we can omit "to be" when we understand the
 ak>>  sentence without it?" ;-)


 AH>            Correct.

 AH>            Another example, a jocular saying in English:  Better to keep
 AH> silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and prove it.

Although if silence has been in the house for a month even a bad clown is not 
bad. 8-)


 AH>            BTW, this author's name is spelled "Leacock"... "lea" as in a
 AH> bit of potential grazing land or farm land and "cock" as in rooster.  :-)

I could have been more attentive. I retyped it from a book. ;)

Bye, Ardith!
Alexander Koryagin
ENGLISH_TUTOR 2018

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