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Marold Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

No problem about...?

"There is actually no problem about you/your/yours going our out with that girl."

This sentence should be able to take two forms; therefore in this case, it should be presumably you, your, being the two possibilities?

Thank you in advance.
  

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Marold you, your, being the two possibilities? Right, but 'your' is the officially accepted form for formal writing. CJ

— CalifJim

  • Marold you, your, being the two possibilities?
  • Right, but 'your' is the officially accepted form for formal writing.
  • CJ
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Maroldyou, your, being the two possibilities?
Right, but 'your' is the officially accepted form for formal writing.

CJ
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Less formal
(1) "There is actually no problem about you going our out with that girl."
(2) "There is actually no problem about him going our out with that girl." - Correct?
(3) "There is actually no problem about her going our out with that girl." - Correct?
(4) "There is actually no problem about us going our out with that girl." - Correct?
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CalifJim'your' is the officially accepted form for formal writing.
So who gives the 'official' acceptance? Many British writers accept 'you'.

Fowler is often held up as an authority on 'good' English. If you can work your way through pages 124-133 of The King's English (3rd edition, 1930), he explains exactly why the fused particle shoul
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Hi,

This use of 'no problem' suggests lower register, informal to me.

Clive
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fivejedjonSo who gives the 'official' acceptance?
Every American prescriptive grammar book I've ever read! HAH!
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Marolda short table
I don't see a way of making it short! It has to contain what it has to contain -- no more, no less!

Subject...Object...Possessives....Reflexive

I.............me.........my......mine........myself
you........you........your.....yours.......yourself, yourselves
we.........us..........our.......ours.........ourselves
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MaroldThere is actually no problem about you going our out with that girl.
You have replicated this same typo throughout. You might want to correct it if you use these examples in another post.
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Hi,
CalifJim Maroldyou, your, being the two possibilities?Right, but 'your' is the officially accepted form for formal writing.CJ
I completely agree.

Regards
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Thank you very much everyone who has written here any post! Every bit helped me a lot Emotion: smile And CJ, thank you for the table!
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