Verbal Constructions Third person plural: is rather than are, and was rather than were mustn't have + past participle, rather than can't have + past participle Past tense: come rather than came, and done rather than did.
Or rather, he can't eat and he can't talk.
8.44pm BST Mickelson, rather predictably, can't guide that downhill par putt home.
So the range of reference deployed by Mr. Scogan, the accredited philosopher, can be imagined; or, rather, it can't.
I can still remember (or rather, I can't) the riveting extract from Pete Doherty's diaries: "Can't believe there's a telly in me room cell.
Or rather, you can't, because it's sold out and even if it wasn't, you'd still need $1,200.
"But they were, 'Are you sure this is safe?' rather than 'Can't you bring this in?' " Ms. Harrison said it was "unfortunate" that the scientist was afraid to complain publicly.
In Britain we no longer seem able to write across the crass and subtle distortions of class - or rather, we can't do it gracefully, without seeming to strain or without caricature.
In his first formal interview since the incident, Captain Sullenberger admits to Katie Couric on 60 Minutes, the CBS news magazine that will be broadcast tomorrow evening, that his first thoughts were not, as she suggests to him, "how do we get out of this", but rather, "this can't be happening".
