Date:  Tue, 21 Jun 1994 05:42:57 -0500

From:  Natalie Maynor <maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

Subject: Re: needs + p.p.



> Another (but unrelated ) issue is the relative clause strategies that I read

> somewhere is usual in speech in most of US but not of course in StEng.:

>

> The people that their house was burnt down.



I don't think I'd call it "usual" -- I've managed to live my whole life

without ever having heard it.



> rather than ...whose house was burnt down.



I haven't heard this either, of course, but not because of the syntax --

because of "burnt" for "burned." :-)

  --Natalie (maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ra.msstate.edu)