Grammar Question:
I have been reading incorrect student sentences for an hour and am getting mush brain. "The fight between her father and her" or "The fight between she and her father"?
Yes. Men like sports. Men watch the action movie, they eat of the beef, and enjoy to look at the bosoms. A thousand years of avenging our wrongs and that's all you've learned?
Xander ,'End of Days'
Spike's Bitches 40: Buckle Up, Kids! Daddy's Puttin' the Hammer Down.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Pix - May 20, 2008 8:24:42 am PDT #9820 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Dana - May 20, 2008 8:25:36 am PDT #9821 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
It's an object of the preposition, right? It would be "The fight between them," so it should be "between her and her father."
Pix - May 20, 2008 8:27:24 am PDT #9822 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
That's what I thought, but it just kept looking wrong, for some reason. Okay, then the second question... The student wrote "her father and her," and clearly "her and her father" reads more fluently. But is it grammatically any more valid?
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Dana - May 20, 2008 8:28:26 am PDT #9823 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
I don't think there's a gramatical argument for it. It's just a question of clarity and flow.
Pix - May 20, 2008 8:30:29 am PDT #9824 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Thanks, Dana!
Beverly - May 20, 2008 8:31:53 am PDT #9825 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
In cases like these, I chicken outgo for the diplomatic option of rephrasing: "The fight she had with her father..."
Typo Boy - May 20, 2008 8:39:13 am PDT #9826 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Yeah, I think it was flirting. Meara with rumpled hair = hot.
meara - May 20, 2008 9:06:23 am PDT #9827 of 10001
Heh. Sadly, meara with rumpled hair, glasses, pajamas, off an hour long conference call, and PRECOFFEE?? Not quite the glamourpuss or tousled tease you might envision.
Though given some conversations I've had about the Seattle aesthetic and attitude, recently, I suppose it might go over better than I'd anticipate or prefer...
Atropa - May 20, 2008 9:07:50 am PDT #9828 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
{{Raq}} I'm so sorry.
Sean K - May 20, 2008 9:09:56 am PDT #9829 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
PRECOFFEE??
That's just uncalled for.
::shoves coffee through interwebs for meara::
But the rest of it sounds like the standard meara-spheric levels of HOTT.