Timeline for Why is "Studying British girls is smart" an incorrect way to express "British girls who study are smart"?
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| Sep 9, 2021 at 15:55 | history | migrated | from english.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| Sep 9, 2021 at 15:07 | comment | added | Swift | @Lambie that particular one got about 4 year old set of bug report for them to make it a) option b) fix damn logic c) make keystroke correction optional (no, you didn't want to press that key, you meant this key, because you're not English). Their answer is "will not complete", because extra code paths. | |
| Sep 9, 2021 at 15:04 | comment | added | Lambie | So, turn off auto-correction or answer these questions from a computer. :) | |
| Sep 9, 2021 at 15:02 | comment | added | Swift | @Lambie same as without proper punctution , I suppose We have edit function though. It's hard to to see text on phone and autosuggestion edits it. I'm tired to re-install the and replace if with of (every time I type of in middle of phrase it replaces with if) but developers of auto-corrector think differently. | |
| Sep 9, 2021 at 14:58 | comment | added | Lambie | [the person in question//in the declarative sentence//of an ambiguous reading//even if the coordination // and several other missing determiners.] You have no idea how painful it is for a native speaker of English to read an entire answer without determiners. | |
| Sep 9, 2021 at 14:58 | comment | added | Swift | @Lambie let's say teachers were wrong in terminology (parsing their way it cannot be be a phrase, but result of parsing semantically same). Thanks for correction | |
| Sep 9, 2021 at 14:48 | comment | added | Lambie | /Eating apples/ is/ smart. /Eating apples/ is a gerund phrase that behaves as the subject of the sentence. [...]you got this wrong. | |
| Sep 9, 2021 at 14:36 | comment | added | LPH | "Apples" is not an appositive in the infinitival clause "eating apples", but instead, an object. "Is" is not an auxiliary but a full verb here. "To coordinate" is not a grammatical term. Also, 'to flip things around" has no precise meaning in this grammatical context. | |
| Sep 9, 2021 at 14:30 | comment | added | Swift | @LPH It could be, because our teachers were trying to use terms from their native grammar which is incompatible with English. I'd appreciate pointers. | |
| Sep 9, 2021 at 14:25 | comment | added | LPH | Sorry to say, but you get all this grammatical terminology wrong… | |
| Sep 9, 2021 at 13:57 | history | answered | Swift | CC BY-SA 4.0 |