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PreciousJones Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

short sentence.

There are so many dishonest scammers down here in LA, it was a pleasure doing business with an honest person, very hard to find these days.

Please proofread sentence for me. Thank you!
  

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There are so many dishonest scammers down here in LA . I t was a pleasure doing business with an honest person, who is very hard to find these days.

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  • I t was a pleasure doing business with an honest person, who is very hard to find these days.
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There are so many dishonest scammers down here in LA. It was a pleasure doing business with an honest person, who is very hard to find these days.
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Aspara GusThere are so many dishonest scammers down here in LA. It was a pleasure doing business with an honest person, who is very hard to find these days.
It's shocking to me, because the sentence above was texted to me by a white American from Utah, and you would think he should have perfect grammar. I don't mean to stereotype or generalize, and it could'v
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It’s actually not too bad for a text message. I’ve seen a lot worse.
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Aspara Gus, I notice that you wrote who is where I would have used which is. Am I missing something here?
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I used who to refer to an honest person. I wouldn’t exactly word it that way myself, but I was just working with what I had.

I suppose that you could use which to refer to business with an honest person, but I’m not too crazy about that.
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It seemed to me that I would say:
I talked with Aspara Gus, who is an expert on English. (because Aspara Gus is a specific person.)
I talked to someone who doesn't mutilate English, which is hard to find these days. (because "someone who doesn't mutilate English" is a class of person being described here.)
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Blue JayI talked with Aspara Gus, who is an expert on English.
More like an expert at posing as an expert on English.
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That may indeed be why the texter didn't bother to use a pronoun.
That rascal!
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