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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
This./.that
Am I right about the 'this' and 'that' below?
1. It is plush, lush, posh and swish. This carpet.
2. That is a plump, chunky, fleshy, tubby and pudgy. It is my cat.
1. It is plush, lush, posh and swish. This carpet.
2. That is a plump, chunky, fleshy, tubby and pudgy. It is my cat.
Top answer
" is not a sentence. There's actually no way you could be wrong about the pronouns. There's nothing in the rest of your text to suggest which is the near one and which is the far one.
- " is not a sentence.
- There's actually no way you could be wrong about the pronouns.
- There's nothing in the rest of your text to suggest which is the near one and which is the far one.
- We must presume that you're pointing to one and then to the other.
- That's fine.
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Of course, "This carpet." is not a sentence.
There's actually no way you could be wrong about the pronouns. There's nothing in the rest of your text to suggest which is the near one and which is the far one. We must presume that you're pointing to one and then to the other. That's fine.
(You could swap the "this" and the "that," and no one would be the wiser.)
The verb in your
There's actually no way you could be wrong about the pronouns. There's nothing in the rest of your text to suggest which is the near one and which is the far one. We must presume that you're pointing to one and then to the other. That's fine.
(You could swap the "this" and the "that," and no one would be the wiser.)
The verb in your
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Sorry, these 2 examples I gave are not good enough.
please allow me to restate my examples.
1. The torrential rain last night caused floods everywhere. That is deplorable.
2. The torrential rain last night caused floods everywhere, it is deplorable.
3. The last night's torrential rain caused floods everywhere. This is d
please allow me to restate my examples.
1. The torrential rain last night caused floods everywhere. That is deplorable.
2. The torrential rain last night caused floods everywhere, it is deplorable.
3. The last night's torrential rain caused floods everywhere. This is d
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You cannot use a comma before 'it' in the second sentence. As with #1 & #3, the punctuation must be a semicolon or a full stop. When you fix the 2nd sentence, all of those pronouns will refer properly to the event in the previous sentence.
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AnonymousSorry, these 2 examples I gave are not good enough.
please allow me to restate my examples.
1. The torrential rain last night caused floods everywhere. That is deplorable.
To me this sounds correct as it refers to 'Torrential rain'
2. The torrential rain last night caused floods everywhere, it is deplorable.
Please correct this sente
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There is nothing 'deplorable' about torrential rains, Rahul-- they are a simple act of nature. It is the total effect-- in all the sentences-- that is unfortunate. Which demonstrative pronoun is chosen is irrelevant here.
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