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I'd comment vote if the scansion were correct.
Isn't scansion singular (scansion was correct)?
I don't know what's wrong with you people- but any goat that can stick toothpicks into a pickle is totally worth voting for!
Cleft hooves FTW!!
Technically speaking, subjunctive is a grammatical mood, not a tense. If you're going to nitpick, do so with all the specialist jargon available to you.
(And the use of what's normally a plural form for the imperfect subjunctive is mandated in some dialects of English and absent in others. Personally, I use the two in free variation, though the form I used in that comment sounds slightly more formal to my ears.)
Whoa there Dok, just trying to answer Tony's parentheseed pondering with the best knowhow I gots (in Spanish and Hindi, my other languages, the subjunctive is often referred to as a tense in grammar books). I ain't nitpicking about no grammer, but I'll tell you what:
Being anal retentive is fine by me, but please, hold the hints of condescending hostility, kay? Else I'll have to bitchslap the pissant outta you, boy.
You can bitchslap the pissant outta me anytime you want, Bex!
Now now, bitchslapping the pissant out of someone isn't very nice.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Pickle, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling ,through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The toothpicks went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
"And, has thou slain the Pickle?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.