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Chivalry Posted 15 years ago
Grammar
Is this passage any odd to you?
"I wish facebook had been born for at least ten years, and to those of you who are biased enough to describe facebook as 'useless' or 'has nothing but negative impact', I say screw you!"
Now my question is, does the second description about facebook mentioned in this passage sound any odd to you? I mean "describe as" is supposed to be followed by an adjective right afterward, not a verb, am I right?
I think the better/correct version of this is " to describe facebook as 'useless' or 'of nothing but negative impact'." Am I correct?
Now my question is, does the second description about facebook mentioned in this passage sound any odd to you? I mean "describe as" is supposed to be followed by an adjective right afterward, not a verb, am I right?
I think the better/correct version of this is " to describe facebook as 'useless' or 'of nothing but negative impact'." Am I correct?
Top answer
The descriptions are purportedly quotations, so the grammar needn't really (in fact, likely won't) match the grammar of the matrix sentence. If the writer wishes to right the syntax, then some bracketing is required. Actually, I am more perturbed with the beginning of that sentence: 'I wish facebook had been born for at least ten years'.
- The descriptions are purportedly quotations, so the grammar needn't really (in fact, likely won't) match the grammar of the matrix sentence.
- If the writer wishes to right the syntax, then some bracketing is required.
- Actually, I am more perturbed with the beginning of that sentence: 'I wish facebook had been born for at least ten years'.
- Now, that has lots of problems.
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The descriptions are purportedly quotations, so the grammar needn't really (in fact, likely won't) match the grammar of the matrix sentence. If the writer wishes to right the syntax, then some bracketing is required.
Actually, I am more perturbed with the beginning of that sentence: 'I wish facebook had been born for at least ten years'. Now, that has lots of problems.
Actually, I am more perturbed with the beginning of that sentence: 'I wish facebook had been born for at least ten years'. Now, that has lots of problems.
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Hi,
The whole sentence is very poorly written, as well as being rather offensive in tone.
Clive
The whole sentence is very poorly written, as well as being rather offensive in tone.
Clive
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Mister MicawberActually, I am more perturbed with the beginning of that sentence: 'I wish facebook had been born for at least ten years'. Now, that has lots of problems.What's wrong with that sentence?
I didn't notice anything grammatically correct there,
how should it be corrected?
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