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 Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 12:14 pm
Aithera This has been bothering me since I was six, but I forgot the example and I only just remembered it last week.
Okay, so here it is: "her her". As in, "I gave her her apple."
It just sounds so...wrong! Yet how else would you say it?
I'm confused. I never heard of this problem before.... I only know "her" as "her", not two..O_O
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Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 2:14 pm
I think 'her her' is okay.
One 'her' is used as a direct object.
While the other is a possessive pronoun.
Then again, that's just what I think.
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Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 5:11 pm
Ah, that's what I thought. It still sounds weird though. Oh well. The english language never won prizes for prettiness.
Thanks for the help!
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Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 8:44 am
I think the English language fails to win a lot of prizes. >.>
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Posted: Sat May 12, 2007 12:23 pm
blaugh at the last post!! *cough*
So following the last subject of research, is it truly grammatically correct to say "had had?" As in, "I had had a massage, but..."
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Posted: Sat May 12, 2007 3:33 pm
marlyse412 blaugh at the last post!! *cough* So following the last subject of research, is it truly grammatically correct to say "had had?" As in, "I had had a massage, but..." I believe so. I use it, and a lot of people I know use it, and I've seen a lot of people use it, so I assume it's okay.
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 7:10 pm
I knew for certain that "had had" was right, but for whatever reason I was very confused about "her her".
Maybe it's because "had had" is more common, or something.
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 7:19 pm
That's true.
Hrm.
O Wise Muse, where art thou to guide us in our journeys through grammatically correct speech?
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Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 11:48 am
It sounds correct to me.
'I gave her her apple.'
May not look right, but say it out and it sounds fine...then again, I'm not always right. :S
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