| re: Grammar in "Left in the Dark" | |
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Unno 07:50 pm UTC 01/30/07 |
| In reply to: | re: Grammar in "Left in the Dark" - SeeingI 03:11 pm UTC 01/30/07 |
| Actually, most moderns grammarians would accept words like "them," "they," etc. as proper third person singular forms. Prescriptivism is pretty much dead now. Still, I know what you mean. I still mutter "well" under my breath when someone uses good adverbally without a linking verb. Unno > If grammar rules truly kept up with spoken language, there > would be a gender-neutral term for third person. People > say, "If anyone wants a cookie, they can get it > themselves" instead of "he or she can get it for him or > herself." I know which one I and everybody else says, but > I also know which one is technically "correct." | |
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