| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Hounslow Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Shopping Centre of Chiswick | |
| Posted by: | Chris Blackwell | |
| Date/Time: | 27/12/20 15:24:00 |
| Taking into question the theory that one citizen of Britain may use the stated expression of “I was sat…” we must understand exactly the difference between the ongoing action of Sitting and the conjugated form of the infinitive verb Sit. For example we may take one person by the hypothetical name of Kalysta. Kalysta says : “I was so tired. I was sat there in my car for three hours!” We must acknowledge the fact that Kalysta was in her car for an ongoing time, 3 hours. We assume that she was tired because she was in the ongoing action of sitting for those 3 hours. Or perhaps she would like to use the conjugated past form of sit to say that she took the action of sitting once, and then stayed in that state for three hours. However, to say that she was sat there, would imply that she took on the literal adjective of being sat. And because we know that she wasn’t eternally sitting there, her BEING sat does not become part of her personality or being. Therefore, what Kalysta could have said was “I was so tired. I sat there in my car for three hours!” “I was so tired. I was sitting there in my car for three hours!” |