HA.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/EDUCATION/05/15/psat.question.ap/index.html
Students were asked if anything was grammatically wrong with the following sentence: "Toni Morrison's genius enables her to create novels that arise from and express the injustices African Americans have endured."
I couldn't help laughing out loud and expecting Co'Relous to jump out from under my chair and run to overturn a table. XD
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hehe, so our psat scores will go up? (notice the immediate focus on possible score improvement, sigh)
Johes. You are so special. XD
Excuse the potential idiocy, but _is_ there anything wrong with that sentece?
Trust me, Maria, I didn't find ANYTHING wrong with that sentence. Call me a sucky grammar person, but damn. It explains it a little more in the article, though I never did get it. Blah!
Yeah, I read it twice and still didn't understand.
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My mother majored in linguistics, and she read the explanation and said that the guy was wrong, so...it seems like a complicated question. "Her" in that context is a direct object(the verb being "enables", so no, I don't think that there is anything wrong with that sentence. There is no other form of the word that could be used. On the other hand, I could just be completely wrong about the issue.
(There's supposed to be a parenthesis after "enables", but it didn't show up for some reason.) Sorry for posting again, but I just wanted to clarify that.
DUDE! TELL YOUR MOM TO ARGUE AGAINST HIM!
Imagine. Kira's mom defeats a dude who defeated the PSAT. Allegedly.
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