On his blog, Literal Minded, linguist Neal Whitman recently discussed something he had said earlier that day, which was:
Oh crap! I forgot to go the store and buy any club soda.
Not everyone who commented on his blog accepted this as being a natural sentence, and I have a bit of doubt about it myself. But as this sentence throws up a couple of interesting language points, I thought I'd make a lesson from it.
Learn a bit about non-assertive words plus purposeful and with five exercises.
