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Old 09-May-2008, 12:43
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Default Re: Help with "may"

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Originally Posted by Miss_Pink View Post
What sentence costituent is "may" in this sentence??

That Republicans are still in charge, and may remain so after November, is due, they allow, to Bill Clinton’s personal misconduct and to September 11th 2001. But the new majority, they insist, is ripening

'That Reoublicans are still in charge, and may remain so after November'. If you consider the second fragment elliptical, then we have here two homogenious subject clauses. Right?
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