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Apr. 27th, 2009 05:41 pmI feel bad about saying this, but I spent the majority of someone's presentation time correcting her grammar.
But I think my bitching is fair game because thesentences in question were illustrating a point in Madirin grammar, and if I have no idea what's going on in the sentence I can't compare it to the Madirin.
The best is example on the paper was "Unfortunately, he was stolen one thousand dollars by a thief." The particular type of passive, indirect passive, she was trying to illustrate sounds semi-ridiculous when you put it into English in the first place, but I was still staring a bit quizzically at it until she clarified. The closest thing is "Unfortunately, he had one thousand dollars stolen by a thief."
And I'm not just saying I had to sit though two presentations on Causatives and Passives in 90 minute period.
But I think my bitching is fair game because thesentences in question were illustrating a point in Madirin grammar, and if I have no idea what's going on in the sentence I can't compare it to the Madirin.
The best is example on the paper was "Unfortunately, he was stolen one thousand dollars by a thief." The particular type of passive, indirect passive, she was trying to illustrate sounds semi-ridiculous when you put it into English in the first place, but I was still staring a bit quizzically at it until she clarified. The closest thing is "Unfortunately, he had one thousand dollars stolen by a thief."
And I'm not just saying I had to sit though two presentations on Causatives and Passives in 90 minute period.
