A patient says: "Doctor, last night I made a Freudian slip. I was having dinner with my mother-in-law and wanted to say: 'Could you please pass the butter?'"
"But instead I said: 'You old hag, you've completely ruined my life!'"
Your in-laws are the family of your spouse. Individually, though, they could be your:
The speaker in the joke above says (s)he was having dinner. This is what I call the alibi tense because it's the tense you would use if the police wanted to know where you were when a crime was committed. Some refer to it as the interrupted tense because we use it to show that another action happened during it. In other words, it is an action that continued before and after another action.
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"But instead I said: 'You old hag, you've completely ruined my life!'"
Your in-laws are the family of your spouse. Individually, though, they could be your:
| Who | What |
|---|---|
| Brother-in-law Father-in-law Sister-in-law Daughter-in-law Son-in-law Co-sister Co-brother |
the brother of your spouse the father of your spouse the sister of your spouse the wife of your child the husband of your child the wife of your husband's brother the husband of your wife's sister |
The speaker in the joke above says (s)he was having dinner. This is what I call the alibi tense because it's the tense you would use if the police wanted to know where you were when a crime was committed. Some refer to it as the interrupted tense because we use it to show that another action happened during it. In other words, it is an action that continued before and after another action.
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