Timeline for The eggs you bought are out of date / Eggs you bought are out of date
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| Dec 31, 2019 at 21:39 | comment | added | Through The Wonders | Let's say I'm a clumsy person and I fell down while jogging. Could I say "People around me stared and laughed as I tried to get back on my feet" on the assumption that the pain from the fall was so intense that I failed to notice how many people stared? I have to be ambiguous because I simply don't know. | |
| Dec 31, 2019 at 0:28 | comment | added | Old Brixtonian | @Through The Wonders -- You'd better ask him! I would simply say that "People who attended the party were funny" is not how we say 'not everyone...was funny.' You CAN say it, but it's not a useful thing to say! It doesn't say anything interesting. If we want to say "Not everyone was funny", we say, "Not everyone was funny." If your sentence began, "Some people..." or "Most people..." it would tell us something. There are many grammatically correct but nonetheless pointless thing to say. As I said, "Eggs that you bought are out of date" doesn't make clear whether some or all are out of date. | |
| Dec 30, 2019 at 19:31 | comment | added | Through The Wonders | I still wonder why Astralbee said that ''Eggs'' without the definite article is ungrammatical. Why can't I say ''People who attended the party were funny'' meaning not everyone was funny, but of the twenty who was there eighteen were funny and the other two weren't. | |
| Dec 22, 2019 at 3:28 | history | edited | Old Brixtonian | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 22, 2019 at 3:16 | history | answered | Old Brixtonian | CC BY-SA 4.0 |