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- From: jyw@phys.psu.edu (Jin-Yuan Wu)
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- Subject: What's cooking?
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- Date: 17 Nov 92 20:06:16 GMT
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- Hi Dear Netters:
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- I read a food ad and found two sentances which I don't understand.
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- (1) Not all the Italian masterpieces are hanging in museums.
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- (2) So come see what's cooking at Applebee's Festa Italiana.
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- English is not my native language. I asked some American and English guys
- and they told me that these two sentances are acceptable. Could any one
- tell me why they are accepted grammartically? I thought they should be:
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- (1) Not all ... are HUNG in museums.
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- (2) So come see WHO'S cooking ...
- or So come see what's cooked ...
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- Thank you.
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