Timeline for We call the shots as we see them
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| Jan 12, 2023 at 9:48 | comment | added | saki | oh, that is helpful, thank you! | |
| Jan 12, 2023 at 7:01 | comment | added | James K | consider moving to Linguistics | |
| Jan 12, 2023 at 3:13 | comment | added | saki | Thank you, but my puropose is not to communicate in English, but to study, research, analyse it from a linguistic perspective. That is why I ask a little complicated questions and I want to receive ideas or intuitions from native speakers of English. | |
| Jan 11, 2023 at 21:29 | comment | added | James K | I think you are way overcomplicating things. Often these prepositional phrases give extra information about the whole clause. That is to say it gives some extra information about both "how to call" and "what type of shots". As an English Learner, you will improve faster if you focus on Communication rather than Analysis. It is better to be able to communicate effectively, than to be able to draw a parse tree, but not understand English. | |
| Jan 11, 2023 at 9:45 | comment | added | saki | I also want to ask you about the relevant example "She's going to tell the truth as she saw it." For you, does the as-clause "as she saw it" modify "tell"? | |
| Jan 11, 2023 at 9:40 | comment | added | saki | Thank you. I think if "as you see them" modifies "call" and this as-clause functions as providing a manner (i.e., how to call) like "the way you call the shots is like the way you see them, " which is imcompatible with each other, I guess. So, how do you think about this point? The pharse "one call the shots as one sees them" is considered as a fixed expression, and therefore the meaning of "see" in the as-clause is coerced to fit the meaning of "call" or some other reasons? | |
| Jan 11, 2023 at 6:13 | history | answered | James K | CC BY-SA 4.0 |