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erronis

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21. I was clarifying your title: "He was the target of such men and Gen. Smedley Butler"
Mon Mar 19, 2018, 02:16 PM
Mar 2018

If you had written it as "He and Gen Smedley Butler were the target of such men" it would have meant what you were implying.

Otherwise "such men and Gen. Smedley Butler" are considered a noun phrase and are taken together. (Jeez, it's been 60+ years and I [think] I remember things like "noun phrases".)

Anyway, points taken and agreed upon. (win-win)

Such a great leader hueymahl Mar 2018 #1
He was the target of such men and Gen. Smedley Butler Boomerproud Mar 2018 #2
Just wanted to clarify that Gen. Smedley Butler was not part of "such men". erronis Mar 2018 #9
I said in my post that Gen. Butler saved this country. Boomerproud Mar 2018 #20
I was clarifying your title: "He was the target of such men and Gen. Smedley Butler" erronis Mar 2018 #21
Smedley Butler gabeana Mar 2018 #13
cuz it has ever been thus. mopinko Mar 2018 #3
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Brava! And she stood by her husband and supported him even with all the pressures erronis Mar 2018 #10
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K&R blue-wave Mar 2018 #15
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