Word: pronoun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...real candidate of the Silent Majority." Taking the stage, he sounded like Marlon Brando in The Godfather and spoke for 21 seconds, a personal record for brevity. "Bad. It's bad," he gasped. "I'm going to let Hillary say something." She delivered a brief speech filled with the pronoun "we." Afterward a reporter cracked to a Clinton aide, "I thought Mrs. Wilson's speech was fine," a snide reference to the last year of Woodrow Wilson's second term when the invalid President ceded much official power to his wife...
Gender confusion cripples the portrayal of the Doctor's brother and rival, Pytir (Marcy De Nezza). While there is no difficulty in casting a woman in the part Ibsen wrote for a man, the director hasn't established a consistent pronoun policy for Pytir; this confusion gives rise to lines such as "The doctor's brother, she...". This difficulty is compounded by De Nezza's absurd top hat, which perches precariously on top of her head like the bunny ears on a Vegas show girl. The audience has trouble concentrating on her (good) acting while they decide where she stands...
Occasionally, The Art of Celebration becomes a bit precious, like when Appel asks, "Do the people who collect classic modern plates ever actually use them? Does one's use of the rhetorical question and the impersonal pronoun disguise one's uneasiness with the subject, a fear of sounding effete about dishware? Why doesn't the Design Collection have any beer mugs on display? Is the form art-proof by definition? Is some wine-bound snobbery at work, even in utopia?" But you forgive the prof, `cause, ya know, this education thing is an uphill climb. A spoonful of sugar helps...
...other words, "You" will look the samewhether used as a direct object or an indirectobject in a sentence, while another pronoun like"he" would change to "him" under the samecircumstances, Knowles discovered...
Grammatical errors arise in everyday speechwhen people couple another pronoun with "you" in asentence, Knowles says. Many people incorrectlysays "He hit you and I" when the correct formshould be "you and me," she says...