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6:00 AM
@userr2684291 With respect to this question. I think we can have "She doing it." etc. It mainly happens in Fiction and Spoken register.
My take on this is "it's an elliptical form of She is doing it."
 
Anonymous
6:28 AM
@Man_From_India Some dialects do have copula deletion (AAVE). This isn't that. This is just a list of events, each with the form of a non-finite clause, and it's standard.
 
@snailplane I searched CGEL, but there it only said as a complement G-P clause can take an accusative/plain form NP.
But didn't list any example with pronouns of plain form.
 
Anonymous
I don't get the feeling that I'm reading a non-standard dialect with copula deletion when I read the sentence. It reads like Standard English to me. It could have been written with different punctuation:
 
Anonymous
> The next events passed in the darkness behind her eyelids: Eri letting go of the barrier and leaning forward; her being shoved violently backward; her tumbling down, ending face up on the floor.
 
Anonymous
If they were complete sentences with copula deletion, it wouldn't fit the context and would be rather strange, but then it would indeed be she rather than her.
 
Anonymous
In this case it should be her.
 
6:33 AM
I searched COCA and found some hit : ". _pp* [vvg] '
 
Anonymous
If you did want to imagine some ellipsis, it would probably make the non-finite clauses one half of a copular clause, something like: Those events were Eri letting go of the barrier and learning forward, . . . and so on.
 
hmmm I thought the auxiliary verb is omitted.
> He took a step toward me, his face pleading with me to get in my room. " I told you to get that sassy little black behind of yours into that pigsty you sleep in and clean it up. Now. " " Big Daddy, " M'Dear said in her nice voice, " don't be getting mad at the child . She going in there right now. " M'Dear gave me a look. " She going right in. You go on outside and get yourself some air. I'll call you when your dinner's ready. " She looked at me and jerked her head toward the bedroom. "
 
Anonymous
@Man_From_India Now there's an example of copula deletion.
 
Anonymous
That's not like the example in the question you linked to, though.
 
hmmm will have to see closely to these examples to have better understanding. Will come back later.
 
 
3 hours later…
9:55 AM
@Man_From_India @snailplane Please help me DIRECT AND INDIRECT SPEECH
She said to me ‘” I cooked and he cleaned”
A. She said that she cooked and he cleaned. B. She told me that she cooked and he cleaned.
C. She said that she had cooked and he had cleaned. D. She told that she cooked and he cleaned.
 
 
1 hour later…
11:00 AM
@user62015 What do you think?
 
I think
A
 
@user62015 Why not B?
 
B makes sense
I agree
 
@user62015 Why not C?
 
But why not C?
 
11:04 AM
(:
 
I think when two actions happened at the same time then we do not change the tese
tense
 
Never heard of that.
@user62015 Did you read that somewhere?
 
Not sure but my friend told me that
Are you sure?
 
I've never heard of that rule.
 
Let me know what do you think?
About the answer?
 
11:08 AM
It's either A or B or C. I'd go for C because A and B are pretty much the same.
 
But said to should be told?
What do you think?
 
I know, but I doubt that's what they're trying to trip you up with.
They simply ran out of options so they changed it up.
 
What option will you choose?
 
@user62015 I'd choose C.
 
Okay.
Thanks.
One more question
Komal asked me, “Did you see the cricket match on television last night ?”
A. Komal asked me whether 1 saw the cricket match on television the earlier night B. Komal asked me whether I had seen me cricket match on television the earlier night
C. Komal asked me did I see the cricket match on television last night D. Komal asked me whether I had seen the cricket match on television last night
I think D
 
11:11 AM
@user62015 Don't blame me if it's wrong, A and B and C are grammatical, haha.
 
Okay.
But do you solve English grammar questions?
 
@user62015 Did you copy B correctly?
 
Yes.
me is wrong
otherwise they are same
 
@user62015 Well, they're not the same, are they now?
The earlier night vs. last night.
 
Let me check
Last night would be earlier night?
 
11:16 AM
Yeah, you backshift adverbs accordingly.
 
So I think B is a typo
 
If last night is still last night, then there's no need to backshift it.
 
Right?
 
@user62015 Yeah, if me is actually the, then B is grammatical.
 
Thanks. Made sense
 
11:19 AM
@user62015 A doesn't make sense for that same reason, I think – because the rest of the sentence isn't backshifted, while the adverb is.
 
May I ask you some something?
 
Shoot.
 
Where are you from?
 
@user62015 Croatia.
 
Great.
What's your good name?
 
11:22 AM
@user62015 What do you mean?
 
Name?
 
@user62015 The anglicized version would be Jacob. What's yours?
Anglicized means "made to sound English", in this case.
 
OK.
My name is Shivendra
 
@user62015 Alright, nice to meet you.
 
Same here.
 
11:34 AM
@user62015 I googled your question, and B is correct examveda.com/…
(No matter what they say is correct.)
 
Let me check.
Yes.
Made sense
 
@user62015 But, just to make it clear for you, both B and D are correct. I'd choose B because, just like in your previous question, you don't normally assume that the situation is still true, otherwise you'll always have 2 answers that are correct.
 
Ok
 
(Or more, as in that previous question.)
 
yes
 
 
2 hours later…
1:27 PM
@P.E.Dant I agree with BillJ here that chicken is more complement than modifier. CGEL's test for complementarity with nouns not derived from verbs (p.441) is whether replacing the head noun with the pronoun one results in some "degree of infelicity": how do you feel about John made an onion soup, and Jack a chicken one? — StoneyB yesterday
I have to read that.
 

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