Please, take a look at my sentence and help me!

Hi,

is it correct to say : "It seems that John annuled himself. He doesn't want to fight for his life anymore".

No, it sounds odd. Say something like 'John resigned himself', 'John gave up'.

Best wishes, Clive

The question was not about how the sentence sounds, but whether it is correct. It is correct to say 'It seems that John annulled himself'.

Clive,

Thanks a lot,

Juliet

Hello, Lovek323!

Sorry, you want to mean that it's correct to say "it seems John annuled himself", don't you ?

Best regards,

Juliet.

Hi,

It's also correct grammar to say The table cooked the chair, but the meaning is very odd.

I agree that syntax and semantics are quite different from each other. As a matter of fact, that was my argument. If I were to say to you, 'John annihilated himself' or 'John extinguished himself', would you know what I was meaning? To annul is to annihilate, to extinguish, et al. Just because you aren't aware of the meaning doesn't mean that it has none or that the construction is absurd.

Hi again,

In the context of the original post, would you tell Juliet that it is correct to say 'It seems that John annuled himself'?

Clive

Most students on this forum who ask if a sentence is correct want to know more than that it is syntactically correct. By "correct" they are asking not only about syntax, but also about semantic correctness, about idiomaticity, and also about appropriateness to the context, insofar as they provide some context for us to judge by.

Taking that into consideration, the unexplained stat

It is unidiomatic, but not incorrect. The sentence may well convey exactly the meaning the author intended it to convey. If the author were just talking of John killing himself, then, perhaps, annulled was not the best choice, but it was still an appropriate one.

It is unidiomatic, but not incorrect. The sentence may well convey exactly the meaning the author intended it to convey. If the author were just talking of John killing himself, then, perhaps, annulled was not the best choice, but it was still an appropriate one.

This would have been good as your first answer. It's much more informative.