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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
Use of Square Brackets
He asked me to "move [my] behind, before I hit it."
The person said "move your behind, before I hit it." I added the square brackets to change the pronoun "your" to "my" to fit the sentence. However, "before I hit it" seems ambiguous; is "I" referring to the person who said the remark, or the person to whom the sentence was said, the object? Is the sentence the way I have it in the first line correct?
The person said "move your behind, before I hit it." I added the square brackets to change the pronoun "your" to "my" to fit the sentence. However, "before I hit it" seems ambiguous; is "I" referring to the person who said the remark, or the person to whom the sentence was said, the object? Is the sentence the way I have it in the first line correct?
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