Timeline for "Isn't it time you stopped acting the goat"- Is this correct grammatically?
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| Oct 2, 2013 at 16:58 | history | edited | user230 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 2, 2013 at 16:52 | comment | added | user230 | Oh, my answer originally said "Questionable comma aside, the sentence is fine." But I must have deleted that at some point while I was reorganizing my thoughts. Whoops! Thanks, @WendiKidd :-) | |
| Oct 2, 2013 at 16:47 | history | edited | WendiKidd | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
comments on question clarified that the comma was not part of the original text. I've edited the question to reflect, and removed the comma in your answer also so it matches!
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| Oct 2, 2013 at 16:46 | comment | added | WendiKidd | @Mistu4u Sorry about that; I thought the comma was part of the original sentence (I hadn't read your above comment on the question yet) and I was nudging snailboat to add a paragraph to her answer explaining why the comma was wrong, so you'd know :) | |
| Oct 2, 2013 at 16:44 | comment | added | Mistu4u |
@WendiKidd, Also comma. Bad comma. Destroy comma.- Am I using too much commas?
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| Oct 2, 2013 at 16:42 | comment | added | WendiKidd | Also comma. Bad comma. Destroy comma. | |
| Oct 2, 2013 at 16:31 | comment | added | Mistu4u | By the way, I had no idea the "goat" part is an idiom. So I did not think to look up in a dictionary. It seemed pretty straight to me. | |
| Oct 2, 2013 at 16:29 | comment | added | Mistu4u |
I think I need to explain why I thought "the" is needed in (the) time case. I guess "the" makes some information more particular or accurate or exact. Time is IMO a continuous abstract entity. So we need to place a "the" to emphasize which particular time. You said "It's time I went home" -to me it seems as the speaker is telling that he went home in this particular time (say 5PM) yesterday. So from the continuous time entity, we need to point to only 5PM. So IMO we need to use a "the". It's the time I went home. Now the stress on 5PM is like working.
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| Oct 2, 2013 at 16:18 | history | answered | user230 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |