Re: How long before Marrone makes a coherent post?


Marrone wrote:

Actually Diane your wrong, but what do you except from an old dried
out bitch like you.

Your sentence is a bit ungrammatical. I shall parse it for you.

Appositive elements should be set off by commas. This means you need a comma
before and after "Diane." You are on the right track in choosing the second
person pronoun "you" as the subjective nominative for the first clause, but
you have incorrectly chosen the genetive case "your" rather than subjective
case "you." This error also means your first clause itself is reduced to
being only a phrase due to the lack of a verb, rendering it semantically
null. The verb you need here is "are," allowing for the use of the
contracted form "you're" to serve as both subject and verb. While using a
comma before a coordinating conjunction when joining independent clauses is
usually correct, one must use a semicolon when those clauses contain commas.
This means you need a semicolon before "but." Your use of "you" as the
subjective nominative in the second clause is faulty because the pronoun is
reflexive to its antecedent "you," and in this case it should not be because
of the idiomatic structure of the semantic content of the clause. This means
your second "you" should be replaced with "one." Also because of semantic
necessity, the phrasal "do" is inappropriate as "can" is needed to express
ability. "Except" can be used as a verb as you have done; it means "to
exclude." Given the context of your statement, however, you clearly need the
verb "expect." When using coordinated adjectives, the adjectives must be
seperated by commas. Therefore, a comma should be placed between "old" and
"dried out." The use of a comparator, in this case, "like" in place of an
exemplifier, for instance "such as," is non-standard usage. Finally, you end
your sentence with a period. Because the second independent clause is
interrogative and not declarative, you must use an eroteme. To sum up, your
statement should have read, "Actually, Diane, you're wrong, but what can one
expect from an old, dried out bitch such as you?"

RING-RING-RING-RING .. SAVED BY THE BELL .. IT'S RECESS EVERYONE .. NO
PUSHING .. NO SHOVING !!!

Diane




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