sci.energy

"Morris Dovey" wrote in message
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| Androcles wrote:
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| > "Morris Dovey" wrote in message
| > news:@...
| > | Androcles wrote:
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| > | > Oh wait... all energy ultimately comes from the sun anyway.
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| > | An interesting notion.
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| > It is, isn't it?
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| > I'm as clever as you, I can snip to down to one sentence also. :-)
| > Intoxicating, isn't it?
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| Only if you get your physics from a bottle.

In hypothetical sentences introduced by 'if' and referring to
past time, where conditions are to be deemed 'unfulfilled',
the verb will regularly be found in the pluperfect subjunctive,
in both protasis and apodosis.
-- Donet, "Principles of Elementary Latin Syntax"