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Old 17-Jan-2008, 23:51
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Default Re: May Might Can Could

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Originally Posted by louhevly View Post
What do you see as the difference between "ungrammatical" and "not proper"?
Well, Lou, 'not proper' has sometimes, [often?] been used to describe collocations that are/were both grammatical and proper English. It smacks of personal opinion as a way to measure what language is. Personal opinion is, to my mind, a poor way to describe language.

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