Dingoes ate my baby her daughter missing, cries out, "The dingo took my baby!" Dingoes ate my baby "A dingo ate my baby" is a phrase attributed to Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton and also to Meryl Streep's depiction of Chamberlain in the movie "Evil Angels" (1988) (also known as "A Cry in the Dark") about the death of Azaria Chamberlain, an Australian baby girl who died in 1980 at Uluru in the Northern Territory. The Chamberlain family had been holidaying at Uluru when their daughter was taken from their tent by a dingo. The authorities disbelieved the family's story about a dingo, and prosecuted and won
Subjunctive by attraction Subjunctive by attraction In Latin grammar, the subjunctive by attraction (or attracted subjunctive) refers to uses of the subjunctive mood as the result of "attraction" or "assimilation" to another subjunctive or equivalent imperative. The name also applies to subjunctives used when a subordinate clause is "so closely connected with an infinitive as to form an integral part of" it. The following sentences show a verb in a subordinate clause which is made subjunctive because the main verb is subjunctive: The following examples each show a verb in a subordinate clause which becomes subjunctive because the verb on which it depends