RE: Digital Negatives & PT/PD / language & Grammar Police
From: http://www.grammartips.homestead.com/appositives.htm >>> Here's an error from T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock": Let us go then, you and I . . . Technically, it should read, "Let us go then, you and me. . . ." The appositional pronouns ("you" and "I") need to be in the same (objective) case as the pronoun "us." But in Eliot's case I think we can call it poetic license. B. When the first substantive is a pronoun, it should be in the case appropriate to its role in the sentence. WRONG: Us students need to get much better grades on this next exam. RIGHT: We students need to get much better grades on this next exam. WRONG: Mr. Allen assured we students that the grades on the last exam would be dropped if we did better on the next one. RIGHT: Mr. Allen assured us students that the grades on the last exam would be dropped if we did better on the next one. >>> -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Bailey [mailto:jon@jonathan-bailey.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 6:04 PM To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca Subject: RE: Digital Negatives & PT/PD / language & Grammar Police Hmmmm... > Let us go then, you and I, > When the evening is spread out against the sky > Like a patient etherised upon a table... I'm in over my head here, but, did Judy leave the third line of this quote for a reason? Does it hold a clue?? Ducking for cover.... JB www.jonathan-bailey.com Tenants Harbor, Maine
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