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| May 14, 2003
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Posted on 05/15/2003 4:07:50 PM PDT by ZinGirl
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"Toni Morrison's genius enables her to create novels that arise from and express the injustices African-Americans have endured." Interesting choice of sentences to "correct", anyway. I'm sure I'm being sensitive....but do we always have to have an agenda? Could they NOT have formed a sentence without throwing in the race card?
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posted on
05/15/2003 4:07:51 PM PDT
by
ZinGirl
To: ZinGirl
What is the correct answer?
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posted on
05/15/2003 4:12:41 PM PDT
by
netmilsmom
(Bush/Rice 2004- pray for our troops)
To: netmilsmom
here's what "they" say: the sentence was incorrect because the pronoun in the sentence -- "her" -- was used improperly. Keegan said pronouns should only refer to nouns and in this case Morrison's name is used as an adjective.
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posted on
05/15/2003 4:14:25 PM PDT
by
ZinGirl
To: netmilsmom
(I meant to add that I thought it should be "which" instead of "that" in the sentence.....shows what *I* know!)
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posted on
05/15/2003 4:15:34 PM PDT
by
ZinGirl
To: netmilsmom
Toni Morrison has a genius which allows her to... blah blah...
But I think the REAL correction ought to be:
Toni Morrison writes mediocre novels... blah blah
To: netmilsmom
"The genius of Toni Morrison enables her to do whatever she does." Like that.
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posted on
05/15/2003 4:16:22 PM PDT
by
CaptainJustice
(Dangerous Jesus Lover)
To: ZinGirl
"BILL CLINTON'S PENI$ enables him to create novels that arise from and express the injustices WHITE HOUSE INTERNS have endured."
...well WHY NOT?
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posted on
05/15/2003 4:17:33 PM PDT
by
JOE6PAK
(Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder ...)
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To: ZinGirl
I thought the correction would be
Toni Morrison's genes enables her to create novels that arise from and express the injustices African-Americans have endured.
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posted on
05/15/2003 4:18:00 PM PDT
by
byteback
To: homeschool mama
I thought you might enjoy seeing this. I didn't know a person's name could be used as an adjective?
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posted on
05/15/2003 4:18:24 PM PDT
by
Freedom2specul8
(Please pray for our troops.... http://anyservicemember.navy.mil/)
To: ZinGirl
Including the word 'genius' renders the entire sentence false.
To: JOE6PAK
good....except, according to this Keegan guy, you're still breaking the rule of using a pronoun in that manner.
(no matter how true the statement...NOR how many rules Clinton "violated"!)
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posted on
05/15/2003 4:19:26 PM PDT
by
ZinGirl
To: CaptainJustice
Probably should be genus instead of genius.
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posted on
05/15/2003 4:20:11 PM PDT
by
FreePaul
To: netmilsmom
"What is the correct answer?" I have put in the appropriate corrections:
Toni Morrison's genius as an enabler arises from the injustices African-Americans like Bill Clinton have endured."
To: walkingman
Thank you!
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posted on
05/15/2003 4:20:45 PM PDT
by
netmilsmom
(Bush/Rice 2004- pray for our troops)
To: walkingman
It would certainly be clearer to say "Her genius enabled Toni Morrison to blah blah blah..."
To: netmilsmom
I believe for it to be
grammitically correct the sentence should read:
"Toni Morrison is enabled by her genius to..."
This makes "Toni Morrison" rather than "Tony MOrrison's genius" the subject of the sentence.
For it to be logically correct the sentence would have to be reconstructed entirely.
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posted on
05/15/2003 4:20:53 PM PDT
by
So Cal Rocket
(Free Miguel and Priscilla!)
To: ZinGirl
It ain't no big deal.....
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posted on
05/15/2003 4:21:25 PM PDT
by
b4its2late
(Despite the high cost of living, have you noticed how it remains so popular?)
To: ZinGirl
I thought it was in error because the hyphen was not between Afrian and American!
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posted on
05/15/2003 4:22:10 PM PDT
by
MHT
To: walkingman
Could we say
"Her genuis enabled Toni Morrison...blah, blah, blah,"
(I still think it should be "which arise from", not "that arise from")
Honestly, I don't think the guy is correct.
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posted on
05/15/2003 4:22:13 PM PDT
by
ZinGirl
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