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Re: The pronoun problem...

Mister Micawber — Fri, 23 May 2008 00:31:38 GMT

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Either the pronoun or the noun in your fragment is in error. I presume it should have read 'Mother'.

Re: PRONOUN CASE

Mister Micawber — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 06:30:50 GMT

I presume you are talking to somebody. All are OK and understandable.

Re: corrections 6

Feebs11 — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:29:13 GMT

Vincent Teo wrote:
Feebs11 wrote:
Vincent Teo wrote:

Can I say,

(b) Their mother heard the scream of their sons. Whose sons are these? The mother's, I presume. So which pronoun should be used to go with her?

(f) At the junction, he banged (into) the old woman and fell down in the road. ok ( Why do we use "in the road"?) It is a location. Like "in the house", "in the street", "in the tennis club".

(g)They had a bruises on their leg. How many people and how many legs? And how many bruises? A bruise or more bruises?

Are these correct?

Re: reference

AndyL — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 23:02:41 GMT

I don't entirely agree. I think the confusion lies in the passive voice. I will rewrite what I presume the author is trying to say.

Today everything is supposed to be known (by someone), if everything is not known by us then everything is known to some expert, whose business it is know .....

Now the objective case "us" implies we need the nominative ("everything" or pronoun "it") is the subject, now I think you want to know why "known to" is not "known by". We generally use this when we are refering to certain groups. For example The criminal was already known to the police. However "by" is also correct.

Anyone with more to add. I would be interested.

Re: A lot more

Mister Micawber — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 10:17:30 GMT

'There is a lot more to be done. (noun)' -- pronoun, actually: 'a lot more [e.g. work] to be done'
'We have to pay a lot more. (noun?)' -- another pronoun, I presume: 'a lot more [money]'
'I need a lot more books. (adjective)' -- yes, or determiner.
'This one is a lot more expensive (adverb)' -- yes, modifying the adjective.

I suppose that 'more... than' can be extrapolated from all such cases, though I don't think the speaker is making any conscious comparison in examples like 'There's a lot more to be done'-- I don't think that s/he is comparing the quantities of work done and still to do-- just indicating that the task is not nearly finished yet.

Re: To Mod Mr Micawber: each and each of

Mister Micawber — Tue, 30 Nov 2004 14:01:32 GMT

Hi Jeff,

I almost missed this one, even with the title. Moderators (at least this one) often have time only to look down the 'Replies' column to see which new posts are unanswered-- but you 'answered' yourself twice!

Now let's see--

We can't really compare 'all (of)' with 'each (of)' totally, because the first is inclusive while the latter is distributive: no non-count nouns take 'each (of)'. However:

(1) 'Each' works before a singular countable noun only, as a determiner-- if there is no other determiner: 'Each apple is ripe'.

(2) If there is another determiner, then 'each of' must be used: 'Each of the/these/my apples is/are ripe'-- and note also that this works only with plural countables.

(3) Preceding object pronouns, the usage is the same as for 'all of': 'Each of them is an apple'; but neither can follow the pronoun.

(4) With complements, only 'each of' works, I presume, but I cannot find a reasonable sentence: 'This is each of them/the apples' (?)

So, they do seem to follow similar structural laws, varying only by the nature of their meanings.

As to your later examples:

'each of functions of the body' is definitely wrong, as is 'each functions'-- it must be 'each of the functions' or 'each function'.

'And it seems that 'every' + determiner + noun is incorrect. Here, 'every' should be
replaced by 'each of'. '-- yes, it seems that way to me too. Or 'every one of'.

Hope this helps.

Re: Pronouns

Shanna — Thu, 15 Apr 2004 02:14:49 GMT

No.

1) It WAS she...
2) She has HAD ...
3) ...Cheryl and HIM...
4) correct pronoun usage
5)...have THEIR own... (optional)
6)correct pronoun usage
7)correct pronoun usage
8) ...his or her OWN resume
9) correct pronoun usage

4/9 correct

5/9 incorrect

you made about 55%

;)

Pronouns

Guest — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 04:57:04 GMT

It is she who received the free airline ticket.

She has more time available than me for handling this project.

Did you see Cheryl and he at the opening session?

Each student must have their own data disk.

Several students have his or her own computer.

Some of the employees were happy with their raises.

The company has not decided whether they will make profit sharing available.

All candidated mst submit his or her resume.

Naploleon organized their armies.

Are these sentence have the right pronoun use. -------

Re: "a" or "an" before MBA?

mindserve — Sat, 18 Oct 2003 00:25:54 GMT

I think the best way to handle it on a resume is not to say I.
Under education just put MBA university of....
Rarely have I heard of the pronoun I being used on a resume. So leave it out.
In general writing a would be correct as m is a consonant sound.