It's your language. You use it every day. You should strive to master it. My late mother, a 27-year, graduate-level professor of English, embedded that in my brain once upon a time. I’m not nearly as smart as she was, but I’m sharp enough to recognize that the vast majority of native-born Americans can’t speak or write English worth a lick.
Thursday, January 19, 2006
Pronouns & Altercations
“....an altercation between he and his girlfriend.”
--Brandon Webster, WOAI radio, 18 January 2006
It’s ”him and his girlfriend” Brandon, ”him”.
I recommend a crash course in grammar rules regarding the use of personal pronouns.
When people talk in the third person it creeps me out. Maybe a child could get away with it but when an adult does it is just want to kick them and tell them how creepy they are, but I would probably kick a kid too. Good thing I'm not a teacher.
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Insert~sound of choking and gagging~here.
I suppose it's better than the little girl in my class who speaks of herself in the third person. She has NO concept of pronouns at all!
When people talk in the third person it creeps me out. Maybe a child could get away with it but when an adult does it is just want to kick them and tell them how creepy they are, but I would probably kick a kid too. Good thing I'm not a teacher.
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