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Jackson6612 Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

Is there anyone in the five points who...

Are the following sentences correct?

1: Is there anyone in the five points who you haven't f****d?

2: Is there anyone in the five points whom you haven't f****d with?

3: Is there anyone in the five points who you haven't f****d with?
  

Top answer

anyone in the five points makes no sense. No one is going to have any idea what you're talking about. Secondly, as I'm sure you realize, you are using very foul language here, so there is no possibility of being consistent stylistically if you use the high register word whom in the same sentence.

— CalifJim

  • anyone in the five points makes no sense.
  • No one is going to have any idea what you're talking about.
  • Secondly, as I'm sure you realize, you are using very foul language here, so there is no possibility of being consistent stylistically if you use the high register word whom in the same sentence.
  • Sentence 2 will not work at all, in my opinion.
  • Sentences 1 and 3 might be grammatically correct if you cleared up the five points problem, which, as I said above, is completely incomprehensible.
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anyone in the five points makes no sense.
No one is going to have any idea what you're talking about.

Secondly, as I'm sure you realize, you are using very foul language here, so there is no possibility of being consistent stylistically if you use the high register word whom in the same sentence. Sentence 2 will not work at all, in my opinion.

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Hi CJ

I'm sorry if I have offended you. Actually I didn't make that sentence up myself. It was taken from the movie Gangs of New York. Next time I would be more careful when asking such a question.

Kind regards, Jackson
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CalifJim.

Sentences 1 and 3 might be grammatically correct if you cleared up the five points problem, which, as I said above, is completely incomprehensible.

Hi CJ,

I would have written the above sentence as:

1: Sentences 1 and 3 might have been grammatically correc
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With reference to "five points", it is a good example of how important it is to copy your source correctly. "Five Points" was the name of a slum district in New York [the Sixth Ward], so should have been given capital letters. It would have made your question much clearer.
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Jackson6612
CalifJim.

Sentences 1 and 3 might be grammatically correct if you cleared up the five points problem, which, as I said above, is completely incomprehensible.

Hi CJ,

I would have written the above sentence as:

1: Sentences 1 and 3
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The structure I used is basically a "Type II Conditional" with the substitution of might for would. These are common as mud! (You can also substitute could for would in this kind of structure.) The substitutions create a different meaning, of course. They are not synonymous with would.

These might be correct if you cleared up the problem.
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