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Re: Digital Negatives & PT/PD / language & Grammar Police



Surely only the 2nd person pronoun has a vocative case!
Don Sweet
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Soemarko" <fotodave@dsoemarko.us>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 6:30 PM
Subject: RE: Digital Negatives & PT/PD / language & Grammar Police


> > Let us go then, you and I,
> > When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient
> > etherised upon a table...
>
> No, they all got it wrong. My answer below is the right one.
>
> The "you and I" in the above sentence is not the object of 'let,'
otherwise
> it should be "let you  and let me" and thus "let you and me."
>
> But the "you and I" above is vocative. The person is calling/addressing
> 'you' and himself/herself.
>
> But Judy, don't send me the gift (that is, assuming I am right). I have
> planned to buy it. I am just replying for some fun in grammar.
>
> So let I buy the book.   ;-)
>
>
> David
>
>