WANTED: Grammar Expert
Cindy C.
cindysphinx at comcast.net
Wed May 14 19:39:00 UTC 2003
Hi,
> > "Toni Morrison's genius enables her to create
> > novels that arise from
> > and express the injustices African Americans
> > have endured."
Oh, you guys are so *good!*
The error is in the phrase "her to create." As the article
explained:
"The word 'her' . . . was improperly referring to 'Toni
Morrison's' . . . . Many grammar manuals insist that a pronoun such
as 'her' should refer only to a noun, not, as in the case of the
possessive 'Toni Morrison's,' an adjective."
Similarly, the following sentence violates the same rule of grammar:
"Professor Keegan's success has given him some satisfaction."
It should be:
"Professor Keegan's success has given the professor some
satisfaction."
Uh, is there any way we can go about getting that particular rule of
grammar changed or something? I'm not a fan of it, myself.
Cindy -- noting that 53% of the students found no grammatical error
in the test question
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