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Subject:
grammar
Category: Reference, Education and News Asked by: julie0315-ga List Price: $2.00 |
Posted:
05 Oct 2005 16:27 PDT
Expires: 04 Nov 2005 15:27 PST Question ID: 576885 |
Is this correct? There are five people going with we members. |
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Subject:
Re: grammar
From: irlandes-ga on 05 Oct 2005 16:55 PDT |
Us. Try the sentence without the word members, and it becomes obvious. "There are five people going with we" really sounds strange. "There are five people going with us" sounds infinitely better. The form of a word changes as they function as subject or object. The subject will be we; the object will be us. In this case, the five people are subjects; the members are objective. A good source of grammar information is ELEMENTS OF STYLE by Strunk & White. If out of print, it will be available used. |
Subject:
Re: grammar
From: miststlkr-ga on 19 Oct 2005 13:46 PDT |
irlandes-ga is 100% correct, drop the objective and see which subject works best. another example that may be easier to understand the way it works would be to take "Bob went to the mall with Jill and I." Break it down and if both parts make sense then the whole does as well. "Bob went to the mall with Jill" works but "Bob went to the mall with I" does not, so you would use "me" instead. |
Subject:
Re: grammar
From: fsantiago-ga on 24 Oct 2005 14:31 PDT |
The sentence is incorrect since "we" is a pronuoun and it cannot use as a modifier of the noun "members". The correct answer should be "our" which is a possesive pronoun and can therefore be used to modify the noun "members". The only way this sentece is correct is if there is an organization whose initials are "we", and in that case the correct spelling should be "WE" or "W.E." members. |
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