Typos
Aleks
aleksrothis at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Aug 14 23:58:03 UTC 2001
No: HPFGUIDX 24168
--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Bente13 at p... wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Dave Hardenbrook" <DaveH47 at m...> wrote:
> > > Not as crucial, but in the same league is this error near the
top
> of
> > page 325:
> >
> > "[Madame Maxime] wasn't exactly hard to miss."
> >
> > Umm... Shouldn't that be that she *was* hard to miss??
> > -- Dave
>
>
> It most certainly should. She was hard to miss, or, to put it
> differently, it was difficult to avoid seeing her. Good for you!
>
> Bente
I'm not sure where any of you are from so maybe this is just an
english thing, but I would say, for example that she 'wasn't exactly
hard to miss', and I know that plenty of the people I know would too.
It might not be grammatically correct, (I'm not sure, you've got me
confused now) but it is in common usage.
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