Friends of Gabriel Chantayan

someone who knows someone told me he saw him on the escalator eating a ham sandwich and not looking at anyone what sandwich brand was it

boss_tima_76 wrote:what sandwich brand was it

i think if he was eating a sandwich he wasnt gabriel

krova_pl wrote:i think if he was eating a sandwich he wasnt gabriel

Two errors in one short sentence, which I believe is a personal record even for this board. The conditional requires the subjunctive: *were*, not *was* - "if he were eating a sandwich" - and *wasnt* is not a word in any language I know; it is *was not*, or at the very least *wasn't*, with the apostrophe this board treats as optional decoration. And while I am here, the thread title says Gabriel "eats a sandwich... last week", which is a temporal impossibility; he *ate* it, the simple past exists for precisely this situation, and "rumor" at the end of a noun pile is not a sentence either.

-- GV