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Grammar Police Requested
Posted on 08/29/2007 5:50:29 PM PDT by MrsEmmaPeel
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To: MrsEmmaPeel
I am longing for instruction.This is the kind of statement that makes grammar Nazis tingle.
To: MrsEmmaPeel
Only if there are several bloody corpses of socialist democrats before you, as you ponder the grammar, are you correct. If only one bloody corpse, then the singular would have been more appropriate.
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posted on
08/29/2007 7:59:12 PM PDT
by
Cvengr
(The violence of evil is met with the violence of righteousness, justice, love and grace.)
To: MrsEmmaPeel
"I so enjoy discussions like these", she said wielding a bloody axe in her hand. The style book I consulted made a distinction between "this kind" and "these kinds."
If we reworded your sentence, it could be "these kinds of discussions" or "this kind of discussion." So it's clear that you've at least written in the appropriate sense (these discussions).
Whether you used it properly with regard to meaning is yet to be discovered.
It's somewhat context-sensitive. If your fictional(?) woman is rendered homicidal by particular discussion, you'd want to use "a discussion like this."
If, however, she were a situational murderer who was set off by examples of a general class of discussion, then I think "discussions like these" would be appropriate.
Alternatively, she may be set off by a repetition of the same discussion -- in which case "discussions like this (one)" would be fine.
So, really, it depends on you. Are you generally homicidal, or not?
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posted on
08/29/2007 8:08:07 PM PDT
by
r9etb
To: JennysCool
LOL! Good to see you old friend.
To: r9etb
Are you generally homicidal, or not? Hey I just glanced at my meeting notes. I was most concerned about the possible grammar infraction I may have committed
To: MrsEmmaPeel
Hey I just glanced at my meeting notes. I was most concerned about the possible grammar infraction I may have committed I'll put that down under "situationally homicidal." And I'll be careful with my apostrophes, next time we share a thread....
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posted on
08/29/2007 8:16:32 PM PDT
by
r9etb
To: MrsEmmaPeel
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posted on
08/29/2007 8:33:35 PM PDT
by
JennysCool
("The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." -Mencken)
To: Shyla
I really could give a crap!!!!
See, now, that is technically incorrect. It should be that you couldn't give a crap.
Feel free to now tell me that you could give a crap about the fact that it should say that you couldn't give a crap.
:-) :-)
To: MrsEmmaPeel
Mrs. Peel, sweep your comma inside your quotes and enjoy your sentence; it's yummy as is.
Is the meeting one discussion? Or is it rather a tide of voices ebbing and flowing, discussions like wave caps.
Is it the first meeting of these people, or yet another in a series, in which case these discussions is apt.
I enjoy discussions like these sounds smooth.
RoboCop2 would say, "I enjoy discussions like these, wielding my minigun against simpering castrati."
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posted on
08/29/2007 9:14:01 PM PDT
by
PhilDragoo
(Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
To: MrsEmmaPeel
I have no idea but must bump for Emma Pell, regardless.
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posted on
08/29/2007 10:36:14 PM PDT
by
pissant
(Duncan Hunter: Warrior, Statesman, Conservative)
To: MrsEmmaPeel
Grammar Police RequestedYou want to have your Gramma arrested? Why? What did she do?
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posted on
08/30/2007 2:33:05 AM PDT
by
lowbridge
("We control this House, not the parliamentarians!” -Congressman Steny Hoyer (D))
To: Yardstick
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posted on
08/30/2007 5:12:27 AM PDT
by
Shyla
To: RepublitarianRoger
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posted on
08/30/2007 5:13:08 AM PDT
by
Shyla
To: MrsEmmaPeel
"I so enjoy discussions like these", she said wielding a bloody axe in her hand. "I so enjoy discussions like these," she said, wielding a bloody axe in her hand.
OR
"I so enjoy discussions like these," she said while wielding a bloody axe in her hand.
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posted on
08/30/2007 5:19:47 AM PDT
by
bannie
To: MrsEmmaPeel
"I so enjoy discussions like these", she said wielding a bloody axe in her hand. "I so enjoy discussions like these," she said, wielding a bloody axe in her ready, twitching hand.
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posted on
08/30/2007 5:22:09 AM PDT
by
bannie
To: processing please hold
Punctuation before quotations
Always?
There are always "exceptions"; it depends on the circumstances. ;)
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posted on
08/30/2007 12:11:35 PM PDT
by
Fawnn
(Canteen wOOhOO Consultant and tshirtcollections.com person - Faith makes things possible, not easy.)
To: Petronski
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posted on
08/30/2007 12:12:48 PM PDT
by
cyborg
(Long Island Half Marathon finisher!)
To: bannie; G8 Diplomat
Is "In her hand" redundant?
is it better written as:
"I so enjoy discussions like these," she said, wielding a bloody axe.
Have to admit, I do like the "ready, twitching" addition.
To: Tax-chick
If you're speaking about discussions (plural topics/subject matter) that are taking place at that particular meeting, it's singular.
If you repeated the meeting it say two days later, it would be plural.
What did I win? LOL!
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posted on
08/30/2007 4:59:47 PM PDT
by
DCPatriot
("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
To: MrsEmmaPeel
I think you’re right.
“In her hand” is probably not needed.
Good call!
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posted on
08/30/2007 5:29:44 PM PDT
by
bannie
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