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From: alexander koryagin <koryagin@erec.ru>

Hi, Paul Quinn!
I read your message from 05.10.2013 09:47

  ak>> A woman goes along the mall and see a pig head in the showcase of
  ak>> a meat store. "Ah!" she said, "I forgot cigarettes for my hubby!"

  PQ> For the first sentence, my version would have been "A woman makes
  PQ> her way along the mall and saw a pig's head in the showcase of a
  PQ> butcher's store".

    Although, I am not sure that it good to mix different times in one 
sentence. Probably, I should write all the sentence either in the 
present (and then the woman makes her way and sees...), or in the past 
(she made her way and saw...).

    As for me, I tried to write it in the present. But when I tried to 
make it funny I used 90% of brain for it, and only 10% for checking 
grammar. ;=) That's why I wrote "see" instead of "sees". So, my nearest 
task is to learn how to share my brain recourses more equally. Although, 
the remedy is well known -- a person should speak often and learn to use 
the proper Grammar automatically.

  PQ> In any case, the hubby must be somewhat ugly.

    Yeah. A poor woman. From the other side we haven't seen her, too. 

Bye, Paul!
Alexander Koryagin
fido7.english-tutor 2013
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