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Hi Wordsters,
Someone asked me to answer the following question and I'm not certain of the right response. I would opt for the second option. Do you agree?
Change to make correct:
“Between you and I, its right, they’re no mistakes’.”
Corrected version:
“Between you and me, it’s right. There are no mistakes.”
“Between you and me, it’s right; there are no mistakes.”
“Between you and me, it’s right – there are no mistakes.”
Last edited by JohnG; 05/26/09 08:58 AM.
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Seems to me there are many correct ways.
Maybe the second isn't.
This maybe too?
"Between you and me.. it's right, there are no mistakes".
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Looks like a style manual question. I'd say they're all correct but if you're submitting to a publication, the style manual of the publication may state a preference for one over the other.
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Wordsters --I like that! Welcome, John.
Also--there're might be considered okay. Informally.
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Also--there're might be considered okay. Informally. But it's hard to say. And, FWIW, the same construction (or at least constructions that fill the same slot) in other IE languages tend to be singular regardless of the number of the object. German es gibt, not sie geben. The Spanish hay is derived from an expression with the singular ha. The French il-y-a.
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There're is a contraction of there are, but how do you pronounce
'there're' . There'rrrrrr?
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Just my point. And one reason why you so rarely hear it. As if to prove me wrong there are 589,000,000 Google hits but the first three are comments about its rareness.
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but how do you pronounce 'there're'?
/'ðɝɚ/
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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but how do you pronounce 'there're'?
/'ðɝɚ/ and, I'm very sorry to have to ask, how do you say /'ðɝɚ/?! - ron o.
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