Language Log: Ask Language Log: "will have had gone"?
Lori Levin writes: What is going on with "will have had gone"? It gets 122,000,000 hits in Google. I thought there could only be one auxiliary "have" per clause. Did the English auxiliary verb...
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From Shay Cohen, via Lyle Ungar, some output from a PCFG ("probabilistic context-free grammar") trained on the Wall Street Journal part of the Penn Treebank: A manager is a better value of...
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