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Re: Questions for Callaway
« Reply #105 on: May 21, 2007, 06:51:43 AM »
is it ever appropriate to write you'd had in a sentence?

You’d is the contraction for both “you would” and “you had.”  I can't think of a sentence with "you had had" but if you can think of one, then you could properly use "you'd had" in its place.  If you used "you would had" then you would need a "have" in there, I think, so it would be "you'd have had" as in, "You'd have had a chance in the race, but you pulled your hamstring."




"You had had" is plusquamperfectum, "pluperfect". The first "had" is imperfectum or preteritum depending on which kind of grammar you've learnt; the second one is perfectum. The first "had" is a so called "help verb" to the second, because in English both the imperfectum and the perfectum form of "have" is "had". In Swedish the first "had" would be "hade" and the second" haft", together "hade haft", which is plusquamperfectum or, shorter, pluperfect. It's just unusual to use that form in English but not impossible.

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Re: Questions for Callaway
« Reply #106 on: May 21, 2007, 07:09:59 AM »
If you'd had to explain any more of that, Lit, my brain might have exploded. 
it is well known that PMS Elle is evil.
I think you'd fit in a 12" or at least a 16" firework mortar
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Re: Questions for Callaway
« Reply #107 on: May 21, 2007, 07:19:36 AM »
If you'd had to explain any more of that, Lit, my brain might have exploded. 

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Re: Questions for Callaway
« Reply #108 on: May 21, 2007, 01:41:41 PM »
If you'd had to explain any more of that, Lit, my brain might have exploded. 

Mine did. It hurts even more to see how much latin I'm
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Re: Questions for Callaway
« Reply #109 on: May 22, 2007, 03:20:53 AM »
On the other hand my EQ is 67.  :-\

Better than mine which was 57 using this test http://www.queendom.com/tests/access_page/index.htm?idRegTest=1121

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Re: Questions for Callaway
« Reply #110 on: May 22, 2007, 03:23:40 AM »
I got a might 75 on it.

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Re: Questions for Callaway
« Reply #111 on: May 22, 2007, 11:06:04 AM »
I got a 78, but that wasonly the self-report part of it.  I'm not sure how I did on the knowledge-based part, but I think I probably did better on that.  I wasn't confused by most of the knowledge-based questions, save for the fact that I didn't see anything being extremely high on effectiveness in the personal probelm solution parts.
it is well known that PMS Elle is evil.
I think you'd fit in a 12" or at least a 16" firework mortar
You win this thread because that's most unsettling to even think about.

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Re: Questions for Callaway
« Reply #112 on: May 22, 2007, 05:39:06 PM »
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Re: Questions for Callaway
« Reply #113 on: May 23, 2007, 03:42:25 PM »
I got a 71.
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

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Re: Questions for Callaway
« Reply #114 on: May 23, 2007, 06:51:03 PM »
i didn't try yet, but i am hoping for a 69.

is that good?
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Re: Questions for Callaway
« Reply #115 on: May 24, 2007, 04:17:32 PM »
Mine is 74. Woo, I'm practically an NT, I'm in the 4th percentile. Yay me.

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Re: Questions for Callaway
« Reply #116 on: May 24, 2007, 04:58:11 PM »
Guys, remember- the free report is only ONE SCALE.  Calling it your actual EQ qould be rather like calling your MBTI personality type "introverted something something something."
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Re: Questions for Callaway
« Reply #117 on: May 25, 2007, 11:28:13 AM »
caught myself again.  lol
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Re: Questions for Callaway
« Reply #118 on: May 25, 2007, 12:47:56 PM »
Guys, remember- the free report is only ONE SCALE.  Calling it your actual EQ qould be rather like calling your MBTI personality type "introverted something something something."

Oh, I've taken that test. I'm something something something something.
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Re: Questions for Callaway
« Reply #119 on: May 25, 2007, 12:48:37 PM »
Guys, remember- the free report is only ONE SCALE.  Calling it your actual EQ qould be rather like calling your MBTI personality type "introverted something something something."

Oh, I've taken that test. I'm something something something something.

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