Re: street legal piano demos

On Mar 19, 9:13 pm, The Hysterical Bride <rache...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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On Mar 19, 11:02 am, Jumbo <ch...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mar 19, 2:54 pm, The Hysterical Bride <rache...@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mar 18, 10:30 pm, "Peter Stone Brown" <ps...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"John Howells" <howe...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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Who's got 'em?

Not me and welcome back!

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John Howells
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Oh Peter. I'm so disappointed in you. The proper way to say it is,"Not
I." Who is the subject, not the object. I'm afraid I am going to have
to call your 5th grade grammer teacher and chew her out!

And you call yourself a songwriter. Pshaw.

Although PSB doesn't know everything about Bob and accordions, his
grammar is correct here. "Not I" is not a complete sentence. It lacks
a verb. But, as a spoken phrase, it is clearly part of an implicit
sentence which goes: "The answer to your question IS not me." "Me" as
the object of the verb "to me".

I mean, would you have us say "Not he", "Not she", "Not we" ????- Hide quoted text -

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You are saying the same thing, incorrectly. You are STILL not
proposing a full sentence which answers the question about who
(subject) stole the cookies. To repeat, the meaning of *your* sentence
is, "I am not the answer to your question."

What you mean to say is:

"The answer to your question is it was not I (implied: who stole the
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I'm a little confused, as I am surrounded by people who speak
improperly. Now that I think about it, I don't think the sentence,
"The answer to your question is me," has any meaning at all. It is
quite simply incorrect. For the sentence to mean, "I am the answer to
your question," the way to say it is, "The answer to your question is
I."

"The answer to your question is me" has no meaning at all, as far as I
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I'm just confused because what could the question possibly be? "Who is
the answer to your question?" changes the meaning of question, doesn't
it, kind of like, "Who is the answer to your prayers?"

Did you read the links? What do you think? Are you trying to confuse
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In rereading all this, "Who is the answer to your prayers?" doesn't
look correct either, because it's not really a question. Who becomes
the subject. And yet we say "I am the answer to your prayers." I'm
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I just got paranoid and got really cold feet. "Who is the the answer
to your prayers?" is totally legitimate.

Who is the answer to your question? I am. The answer to your question
is I. I am the answer to your question. This is all proper.

"The answer to your question is me" is the same as saying "Me is the
answer to your question," which is obviously incorrect.- Hide quoted text -

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Here we go:

http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-linking-verbs.aspx

I appreciate your taking the time to find links, rach, but the ones
you have found show that you don't understand what I'm saying. (None
of the examples in the link above relate to this case.)

A woman is bashed on the head. The police arrest a suspect. They put
him in a line up and ask her to say which is the man.

She walks up to the first suspect (A).

"No," she says, "not him."

"Beg your pardon, ma'am," says the officer, "grammatically, it should
be "Not he.""

"Don't be ridiculous, officer," she replies. "For one thing, that
sounds silly. And I am NOT saying "He did not do it" but rather "This
was not the man." My subject is "this", my verb is "was" and my object
is "the man". So I use the object pronoun "him." Just as I would say
"Not I" if you asked who took sugar. but "not me" if you asked who
took the sugar."

"Sorry for butting in," says suspect A, "but it was I what did it. I
were disguised."

"Arrest this man," she cries aghast.
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