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PreciousJones Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Obese

I saw the first obese person in Shanghai yesterday on the subway.

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Yesterday on the subway was the first time I saw an Obese person in Shanghai.

Does the first sentence make sense and is it grammatically correct?

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PreciousJones Does the first sentence make sense and is it grammatically correct? Not really. It's understandable if you don't think too hard about it, but once you start to analyze it, it causes some concern.

— CalifJim

  • PreciousJones Does the first sentence make sense and is it grammatically correct?
  • Not really.
  • It's understandable if you don't think too hard about it, but once you start to analyze it, it causes some concern.
  • What can it mean to be "the first obese person in Shanghai"?
  • The first resident of Shanghai ever to become obese?
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PreciousJonesDoes the first sentence make sense and is it grammatically correct?
Not really. It's understandable if you don't think too hard about it, but once you start to analyze it, it causes some concern. What can it mean to be "the first obese person in Shanghai"? The first resident of Shanghai ever to become obese? Surely that person lived centuries
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Yesterday on the subway was the first time I saw an obese person in Shanghai.
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You can use the possessive to restrict the perspective to yourself: "I saw my first obese person in Shanghai yesterday on the subway." There is some ambiguity, though, because it might be either the first one you ever saw, and it happened to be in Shanghai, or the meaning you want. You could make it "I saw my first Shanghainese obese person yesterday on the subway."
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