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Navitasan Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
For you to give me orders
Are these sentences correct:
1-I am not your child for you to give me orders.
2-I am not your child, for you to give me orders.
Meaning: I am not your child and therefore you don't have the right to give me orders.
I think 1 is saying: I am your child but my purpose in being your child is not to receive orders from you. (A strange thing to say!!!)
I am not sure 2 works either.
Gratefully.
Navi.
1-I am not your child for you to give me orders.
2-I am not your child, for you to give me orders.
Meaning: I am not your child and therefore you don't have the right to give me orders.
I think 1 is saying: I am your child but my purpose in being your child is not to receive orders from you. (A strange thing to say!!!)
I am not sure 2 works either.
Gratefully.
Navi.
Top answer
Yes, it is a strange thing to say. "
- Yes, it is a strange thing to say.
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Yes, it is a strange thing to say. A better way of saying it might be: "I am not your child just so that you can give me orders."
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