person A: I was in a college class once with an older woman.  She took a paper idea I had talked about and presented it as her own_comma_ stealing all the work I had done.
person B: That is despicable. Did you report her to the teacher?
person A: I did.  There wasn't much she could do_comma_ but at least I could still do the same paper without having to redo a bunch of work.
person B: She could drop her from the class and give her an F!