Timeline for In spoken language, if a name is used to substitute the pronoun I, which is the correct verb to use as the first person?
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| Jul 9, 2019 at 11:51 | history | edited | tchrist♦ |
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| Jul 2, 2019 at 22:41 | comment | added | WS2 | @JasonBassford Quite! Queen Victoria, fond of the "royal we" is reputed to have said "We are not amused". She didn't say "We am not amused". | |
| Jul 2, 2019 at 13:31 | comment | added | Jason Bassford | @BoldBen Those sound like imperatives to me—and would make equal sense without the use of the names at all. (Assuming it were obvious who was being spoken to.) | |
| Jul 2, 2019 at 8:55 | comment | added | BoldBen | @JasonBassford As an aside I started to wonder about the use of names in the second person. Do you think that "Jalene, give out the spelling test papers.", "Ben, stop that now!" and "Bassford, take the first watch." are examples of names being used in the second person or do you think that they are elided forms of "Jalene, you give out the spelling test papers", "Ben, you stop that now!" and "Bassford, you take the first watch"? | |
| Jul 2, 2019 at 7:54 | answer | added | Henry | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 2, 2019 at 7:06 | comment | added | Jason Bassford | It doesn't matter what the name represents. It only matters what function it serves in terms of syntax. It will always be Aunt Jalene tries to cook. The words Aunt Jalene are in the third person. | |
| Jul 2, 2019 at 7:06 | comment | added | Organic Heart | Edited my original post. Hope it clears the confusion. | |
| Jul 2, 2019 at 7:02 | history | edited | Organic Heart | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 2, 2019 at 6:58 | comment | added | Organic Heart | @JasonBassford I understand what you mean. I was trying to emphasise the "Aunt Jalene" refers to "I" and it is in the context of spoken language, not written language. | |
| Jul 2, 2019 at 6:56 | comment | added | Jason Bassford | You cannot conjugate Aunt Jalene (third person) in the same way as I (first person). It's Aunt Jalene tries or it's I try. The way you've mashed the two together with parentheses and slashes is confusing. | |
| Jul 2, 2019 at 6:36 | history | edited | Organic Heart | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 2, 2019 at 6:16 | comment | added | Organic Heart | @WS2 as the first person. | |
| Jul 2, 2019 at 6:14 | comment | added | WS2 | In other words, are you asking if you refer to yourself in the third person, how should you conjugate? The answer clearly is that you conjugate in the third person - "Aunt Jalene tries to cook..." | |
| Jul 2, 2019 at 6:09 | history | asked | Organic Heart | CC BY-SA 4.0 |