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English Scholars, Is This Sentence Grammatically Right?? by FireVexen(m): 4:44pm On Jul 20, 2015
There was a question i saw, it goes thus

'' ___ decided to took the other route ____ and folajimi okupe took the other day, but i was not satisfied with the way the beggars on the road treated my dog and _____ (A) I , Me, Myself (B) Me, Myself, I (C) I, I, Me (D) I, Me, Me (E) I, Myself, Me ''


i chose C.


_I__ decided to take the other route __I__ and folajimi okupe took the other day, but i was not satisfied with the way the beggars on the road treated my dog and __ME___ ,

but unfortunately there is no answer in the booklet, great english scholars and student, is that sentence grammatical?
Re: English Scholars, Is This Sentence Grammatically Right?? by DuchessLily(f): 4:49pm On Jul 20, 2015
--------- decided to TOOK .... ?

Chai!

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Re: English Scholars, Is This Sentence Grammatically Right?? by Richards22(m): 5:12pm On Jul 20, 2015
I think A is grammatically correct, my thoughts though
Re: English Scholars, Is This Sentence Grammatically Right?? by Lilyomi(f): 5:13pm On Jul 20, 2015
Took in da first sentence is wrong.

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Re: English Scholars, Is This Sentence Grammatically Right?? by FireVexen(m): 6:05pm On Jul 20, 2015
Lilyomi:
Took in da first sentence is wrong.
definitely .. what about my answer?

Richards22:
I think A is grammatically correct, my thoughts though
can you explain why you think its A pls, A sounds totally wrong to me if i should remove the participants in the sentence.

DuchessLily:
--------- decided to TOOK .... ?

Chai!
yeah sure,im more concerned about the brackets.
Re: English Scholars, Is This Sentence Grammatically Right?? by DuchessLily(f): 6:18pm On Jul 20, 2015
FireVexen:


yeah sure,im more concerned about the brackets.

I, I, I and I, myself, I are correct
Re: English Scholars, Is This Sentence Grammatically Right?? by FireVexen(m): 6:27pm On Jul 20, 2015
DuchessLily:


I, I, I and I, myself, I are correct
ok thanks.



LarrySun can you help me out pls
Re: English Scholars, Is This Sentence Grammatically Right?? by LarrySun(m): 6:36pm On Jul 20, 2015
FireVexen:
ok thanks.


LarrySun can you help me out pls
Okay, sir. Let me check it out.

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Re: English Scholars, Is This Sentence Grammatically Right?? by LarrySun(m): 6:48pm On Jul 20, 2015
FireVexen:
There was a question i saw, it goes thus

'' ___ decided to took the other route ____ and folajimi okupe took the other day, but i was not satisfied with the way the beggars on the road treated my dog and _____ (A) I , Me, Myself (B) Me, Myself, I (C) I, I, Me (D) I, Me, Me (E) I, Myself, Me ''


i chose C.


_I__ decided to take the other route __I__ and folajimi okupe took the other day, but i was not satisfied with the way the beggars on the road treated my dog and __ME___ ,

but unfortunately there is no answer in the booklet, great english scholars and student, is that sentence grammatical?

___ decided to took the other route

Firstly, there is an error in the extract above, it should be this:

___ decided to take the other route

Note the difference in tense usage. However, the correct pronoun to fill that gap is I.

Explanation: I is a Subject-Pronoun (that is, it performs the action). The answer cannot be Me because Me is an Object-Pronoun (that is, the action is being performed on it). For example:

I slapped him. Subject.

He slapped me. Object.

Is this clear enough? Okay.

Now let's proceed.
Re: English Scholars, Is This Sentence Grammatically Right?? by Nobody: 6:54pm On Jul 20, 2015
LarrySun:


___ decided to took the other route

Firstly, there is an error in the extract above, it should be this:

___ decided to take the other route

Note the difference in tense usage. However, the correct pronoun to fill that gap is I.

Explanation: I is a Subject-Pronoun (that is, it performs the action). The answer cannot be Me because Me is an Object-Pronoun (that is, the action is being performed on it). For example:

I slapped him. Subject.

He slapped me. Object.

Is this clear enough? Okay.

Now let's proceed.
Waiting.
Re: English Scholars, Is This Sentence Grammatically Right?? by LarrySun(m): 6:58pm On Jul 20, 2015
FireVexen:
There was a question i saw, it goes thus

'' ___ decided to took the other route ____ and folajimi okupe took the other day, but i was not satisfied with the way the beggars on the road treated my dog and _____ (A) I , Me, Myself (B) Me, Myself, I (C) I, I, Me (D) I, Me, Me (E) I, Myself, Me ''


i chose C.


_I__ decided to take the other route __I__ and folajimi okupe took the other day, but i was not satisfied with the way the beggars on the road treated my dog and __ME___ ,

but unfortunately there is no answer in the booklet, great english scholars and student, is that sentence grammatical?
____ and folajimi okupe took the other day,

This one, too, is wrong. There is an error in arrangement of subjects. It should be this:

Folajimi Okupe and____ took the other day,

In the arrangement of more than one subjects, the pronoun should always come last.

In that regard, I still remains the correct pronoun to fill that gap because we are still talking about the subjects here (the performers of the action took)

This one is straight-forward enough, isn't it? Let's proceed. cheesy

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Re: English Scholars, Is This Sentence Grammatically Right?? by LarrySun(m): 7:12pm On Jul 20, 2015
FireVexen:
There was a question i saw, it goes thus

'' ___ decided to took the other route ____ and folajimi okupe took the other day, but i was not satisfied with the way the beggars on the road treated my dog and _____ (A) I , Me, Myself (B) Me, Myself, I (C) I, I, Me (D) I, Me, Me (E) I, Myself, Me ''


but i was not satisfied with the way the beggars on the road treated my dog and _____

There is still a teeny-tiny error here. This one is better:

but I was not satisfied with the way the beggars on the road treated my dog and _____ Any time I is standing alone in any position of a sentence, it must be written in the upper case.

Having cleared that, I shall go to say that the correct pronoun for that is me.

Explanation: This time around, the persona is the object (the verb treated is being performed on him).

In another instance, let's assume the words 'my dog and' doesn't exist in the sentence, then we'll have the sentence like this:

but I was not satisfied with the way the beggars on the road treated _____

Should the answer to that be I or me?

Ha-ha!

There is your answer! cheesy

I hope my explanations helped.
Re: English Scholars, Is This Sentence Grammatically Right?? by FireVexen(m): 8:01pm On Jul 20, 2015
LarrySun:


but i was not satisfied with the way the beggars on the road treated my dog and _____

There is still a teeny-tiny error here. This one is better:

but I was not satisfied with the way the beggars on the road treated my dog and _____ Any time I is standing alone in any position of a sentence, it must be written in the upper case.

Having cleared that, I shall go to say that the correct pronoun for that is me.

Explanation: This time around, the persona is the object (the verb treated is being performed on him).

In another instance, let's assume the words 'my dog and' doesn't exist in the sentence, then we'll have the sentence like this:

but I was not satisfied with the way the beggars on the road treated _____

Should the answer to that be I or me?

Ha-ha!

There is your answer! cheesy

I hope my explanations helped.
Wow thanks boss!
The arrangement error made it sound so odd.
From what you've explained, the sequence is still I, I, ME' guess im right, C .
Re: English Scholars, Is This Sentence Grammatically Right?? by LarrySun(m): 8:21pm On Jul 20, 2015
FireVexen:
Wow thanks boss!
The arrangement error made it sound so odd.
From what you've explained, the sequence is still I, I, ME' guess im right, C .
You're absolutely right, sir.
Re: English Scholars, Is This Sentence Grammatically Right?? by whizbae01(f): 11:17am On Jul 12, 2016
DuchessLily:
--------- decided to TOOK .... ?

Chai!
Dat alone sef is not even correct
Decided to took

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