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Maverick88 Posted 21 years ago
The sentence can be understood in 2 ways:
1) She CLAIMS that autistic people are capable of empathy
2) She says that autistic people MUST BE MORE capable of empathy
(1) Seems to be OK
If we look at (2) is looks like an incorrect usage of subjunctive modd, which I've seen a lot.
Is this analysis correct?
Grammar
Insist that
She insists, for example, that people with autism are capable of empathy
The sentence can be understood in 2 ways:
1) She CLAIMS that autistic people are capable of empathy
2) She says that autistic people MUST BE MORE capable of empathy
(1) Seems to be OK
If we look at (2) is looks like an incorrect usage of subjunctive modd, which I've seen a lot.
Is this analysis correct?
Top answer
Hi again, Well to me only 1 is the good analysis: autistic people are able to feel/project empathy. For 2 to be OK, you should have had: "she insists that people with autism BE capable of empathy", which is more or less an order, and quite out of place here
- Hi again, Well to me only 1 is the good analysis: autistic people are able to feel/project empathy.
- For 2 to be OK, you should have had: "she insists that people with autism BE capable of empathy", which is more or less an order, and quite out of place here
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Hi again,
Well to me only 1 is the good analysis: autistic people are able to feel/project empathy.
For 2 to be OK, you should have had: "she insists that people with autism BE capable of empathy", which is more or less an order, and quite out of place here
Well to me only 1 is the good analysis: autistic people are able to feel/project empathy.
For 2 to be OK, you should have had: "she insists that people with autism BE capable of empathy", which is more or less an order, and quite out of place here
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Yeah that's right pieanne....Be instaed of 'are' there and it'd be OK.
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