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PreciousJones Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Up in here.

Hi,

I'm describing a hotel room to housekeeping:

Please come up to clean the room it's like a pig sty up in here!
  

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Hi, I'm describing a hotel room to housekeeping: Please come up to clean the room it's like a pig sty up in here! This is an odd thing to say. If the mess is your problem, you are criticizing yourself strongly.

  • Hi, I'm describing a hotel room to housekeeping: Please come up to clean the room it's like a pig sty up in here!
  • This is an odd thing to say.
  • If the mess is your problem, you are criticizing yourself strongly.
  • That seems like an odd thing to do.
  • If the mess is their problem, you are criticizing them strongly.
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Hi,

I'm describing a hotel room to housekeeping:

Please come up to clean the room it's like a pig sty up in here!

This is an odd thing to say.

If the mess is your problem, you are criticizing yourself strongly. That seems like an odd thing to do.



If the mess is their problem, you are criticizing them strongly. That seems too forcef
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I agree with Clive, PJ.

From a strictly grammatical standpoint, your sentence is also a run-on sentence. It should be split into two sentences.

Normally a hotel guest would simply use the first part:
- Please come up to clean the room.

If you had made an unusually large mess in the room, you might then apologize about that and then also inform the housekeepi

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