Park sang joon Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Is this sentence right?
My question:
Who do you think you are, ordering me to do this and that?
What do you think you're doing, telling me to shut up?
What role do the participle phrases in bold play?
Someone's answer:
They explain what the preceding clause is referring to. If I asked "Who do you think you are ?", you could answer "I'm Park Sang Joon". Adding the qualifier let's you know that the purpose of my question is different - here, I want to know what right you think you have to give me orders.
So they are qualifiers, explaining exactly what is being referred to by the very general "you are" and "you're doing".
"Let's" is the abbreviation of "Let us", so Is this "Adding the qualifier let's you know that the purpose of my question is different" right sentence?
Thank you in advance for your help.
Who do you think you are, ordering me to do this and that?
What do you think you're doing, telling me to shut up?
What role do the participle phrases in bold play?
Someone's answer:
They explain what the preceding clause is referring to. If I asked "Who do you think you are ?", you could answer "I'm Park Sang Joon". Adding the qualifier let's you know that the purpose of my question is different - here, I want to know what right you think you have to give me orders.
So they are qualifiers, explaining exactly what is being referred to by the very general "you are" and "you're doing".
"Let's" is the abbreviation of "Let us", so Is this "Adding the qualifier let's you know that the purpose of my question is different" right sentence?
Thank you in advance for your help.
Top answer
park sang joon Adding the qualifier let's you know that the purpose of my question is different" right sentence? No. There should be no apostrophe.
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park sang joonAdding the qualifier let's you know that the purpose of my question is different" right sentence?No. There should be no apostrophe.
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Oh! it's exactly so; I admire your wise inference.
Thank you, Mr.Micawber, for your valuable answer.
Thank you, Mr.Micawber, for your valuable answer.
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I'd like to ask you one more thing.
Isn't It only "make" that it is possible to take inanimate objects as a subject among causative verbs?
Isn't It only "make" that it is possible to take inanimate objects as a subject among causative verbs?
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Thank you, Mr.Micawber, for your continuing to answer.
Then do I take it that my grammar book has wrong accounts, or that your
Then do I take it that my grammar book has wrong accounts, or that your
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I think it's most likely that there are rare exceptions to your book's rule. I don't think my example is personification.
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Thank you, Mr.Micawber, for your very valuable answer.
I will treat my book as old fashioned.
I will treat my book as old fashioned.
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