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Mar. 22nd, 2007 02:00 pm
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1. Scan my list of interests. List the one that seems the most odd/interesting/whatever to you in the comments below.

2. I’ll explain it or why I have it listed.

3. Tag you're it.

Date: 2007-03-22 08:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hannah-phi.livejournal.com
resumptive pronouns

Date: 2007-03-22 08:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sjester.livejournal.com
These are pretty rare, but I tend to produce the construction rather spontaneously. I'll give an example, (though [livejournal.com profile] polyhymnia may be better able to give a technical explanation). "And yesterday's episode, which I don't know what it's called." The "it" is the resumptive pronoun in that sentence.

I tried to stick a resumptive pronoun into my thesis, but that didn't work out very well.

Date: 2007-03-22 08:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hannah-phi.livejournal.com
Is it resumptive as in summarizing?

Date: 2007-03-22 08:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sjester.livejournal.com
No, more like as in picking up the subject from the main clause again. In the relative clause ("which..."), there's a new subject, I, so the "it" refers to the episode mentioned in the first part, which is also the thing really under discussion.

Um, if that makes any sense.

Date: 2007-03-22 09:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hannah-phi.livejournal.com
Yes, it's repetitive, not summarizing. Cool, thanks.

Date: 2007-03-27 04:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrskitty.livejournal.com
life of the mind, dark-haired!legolas

Two, I like two.

Date: 2007-03-27 06:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sjester.livejournal.com
Life of the mind is the reason I *heart* Reed. Being all interested in ideas and stuff.

And as to dark-haired!Legolas, he may be blonde in the movie, but in my verson of Middle-earth, he has dark hair.

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