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🗓️ 15 November 2018
⏱️ 11 minutes
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0:00.0 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
0:04.6 | Go and get a girl here, I'm Minyeon Foggedy. |
0:07.1 | This week I have a quick and dirty tip about pronouns |
0:10.0 | and how you should order them. |
0:12.0 | Another quick and dirty tip about how to spell flyer |
0:15.2 | and a meaty middle about the plural of the word mouse. |
0:19.1 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
0:21.2 | Lately, people have been asking a lot of questions about pronouns |
0:25.3 | and what order to put them in relative to nouns |
0:28.8 | and other pronouns, so that's our first topic for today. |
0:32.5 | Here's an example of a question changed slightly |
0:35.6 | to protect the writer. |
0:37.8 | We were scheduling a meeting at work and everyone wanted to have it on Monday, |
0:42.6 | but I couldn't make it and I knew another co-worker would be out of town. |
0:47.2 | So I said, that won't work for Maria and me. |
0:50.6 | But then I immediately wondered whether I should have said me and Maria. |
0:55.4 | Which is it and does it even matter? |
0:59.2 | First, the pronouns you use to refer to yourself, |
1:02.3 | such as me, I, and my, are different from other pronouns. |
1:07.7 | With those three, put them last in a list, meaning you got it right |
1:12.3 | when you said that won't work for Maria and me. |
1:16.1 | Think of it as a matter of politeness, |
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