Here is your posting Joanne.

Thank you, Herb and Paul for responding to my question.

Dalia

 

 

Dalia,

 

I wonder if you could post this for me:  (Thanks!)

 

"I like  the blue color" could be another example of the tendency

towards redundant expressions which seems to be strong in English right

now. My students often write things like "equally as good"; there's the

old "refer back"; "both my sister and brother share this tendency"; and

others that don't come readily to mind.  I can imagine someone

responding to a question like "Which color shirt do you like best?"

with "The blue color." "Color" links the answer to the question, and

puts the queried word ("which color") in the answer.

 

I also have a query about "each other" -- how do we make it possessive,

as in

 

"They are always snooping into each other's business."  Should it be <

each others' > ? I keep doing a Gestalt  shift on this; right now the

first one looks right. How about a clear more-than-two:

 

"The students then proofread each other's papers." Here, the <'s> looks

wrong; the coreference with the plural "students" is getting in the

way.

 

Dr. Johanna Rubba, Associate Professor, Linguistics

Linguistics Minor Advisor

English Department

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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URL: http://www.cla.calpoly.edu/~jrubba

 

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