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Yoong Liat Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

Is sentence correct?

0 When someone pulled the cat's tail, it hissed angrily.02br
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00Is the sentence grammatically correct? 02br
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0Hi YL,02br 02br 00I'm sure someone will pop up and say "Oh, no! " 02br 02br 00I say "nonsense" to that. It is perfectly clear that the cat is what hissed.

  • 0Hi YL,02br 02br 00I'm sure someone will pop up and say "Oh, no!
  • " 02br 02br 00I say "nonsense" to that.
  • It is perfectly clear that the cat is what hissed.
  • 02br 02br 00I would have no trouble with this sentence.
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0Hi YL,02br
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00I'm sure someone will pop up and say "Oh, no! The way you have it written, it sounds like the TAIL is what hissed, not the cat." 02br
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00I say "nonsense" to that. It is perfectly clear that the cat is what hissed. 02br
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00I would have no trouble with this sentence. You could, as I'm sure you know, write it as
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0 I would say 01i00meowed02i00 instead of 01i00hissed.05005102i00 Am I one of this people GG? 010id211id2
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0Hi,02br
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01font01font00When someone pulled the cat's tail, it hissed angrily.02br
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00Is the sentence grammatically correct? 00I assume you're thinking about the placement of 'it'. This kind of thing is so commonly said that it seems OK to me. The meaning is clear, since tails
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0 Thanks Barbara and Clive for your explanations.02br
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00Doll, I think you hiss, not meow.0-
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0?? I was talking about the cat not myself.050010id2
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0 A meow is a friendly sound. A hiss is an angry sound.02br
00 I don't think the cat was feeling particularly friendly after having its tail pulled, so I think we should stick with 01i00hissed02i00! 05002br
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0We should definitely stick with 'hissed'. 05002br
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00By the way, there is this slang expression used in (part of? all of?) the US: 02br
051010id1241hrefhttp://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=hissy+fit&r=66chissy fit
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0 Yes. There's a 01i00hissy fit02i00, and then there's a 01i00conniption fit02i00 (or 01i00conniptions02i00), and I've been told that only people from North Carolina know the difference between the two! (I don't!)02br
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