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riddi said – Mon, 23 Feb 2009 02:50:15 -0000 ( Link )

hello everyone i am riddhima from india and i am looking forward for some help in the grammar section, i am writing down some of the mistakes that i committed and would be grateful if you could tell me that why a certain thing is particularly used in the way it is used and why is not the second option correct?.the mistakes are as follows-

1) your husband doesn’t believe that you are older than (I/me). 2) maybe we’re not as rich as (they/them), but i bet we’re a lot happier. 3) harriest feels that her (brothers-in-law/brother-in-laws) are impossible to get along with. 4) “what (kind of/kind of a) car are you looking for?” asked the salesman.

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  1. sukrutha said – Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:34:21 -0000 ( Link )

    well i cud answer for ur 3rd quest here. the usage of brothers-in-law is correct since brother-in-law is a compound noun and a compound noun generally forms its plural by adding -s to the principal word. other eg.s are passers-by,men-servants,step-sons.

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  2. coolvenky9 said – Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:07:32 -0000 ( Link )

    no i think brother in laws is correct here

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  3. ujju said – Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:12:35 -0000 ( Link )

    brothers-in-law is correct.

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  4. coolvenky9 said – Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:17:08 -0000 ( Link )

    i think the first question comes under a catogery of PRONOUN CASE. U shud see where the pronoun is whether in the SUBJECT place OR OBJECT place. ‘I’ goes with pronoun in subject place aand ;ME’ if the pronoun is in object place. here it is in object place so it shud be “me”.

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  5. deepan agrawal said – Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:36:34 -0000 ( Link )

    in the third question the correct answar will be brothers in law …because are is being used for brother and not for law .we can hav many brothers who are our in law but we canot hav brother who is related to us throughlaws ….

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  6. rima_explore said – Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:41:13 -0000 ( Link )

    the 2nd questn…..maybe we r not as rich as them….”they” will be used when we write as…..maybe we r not as rich as they are…

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  7. psunils said – Wed, 25 Feb 2009 06:41:58 -0000 ( Link )

    1) your husband doesn’t believe that you are older than me. 2) maybe we’re not as rich as them, but i bet we’re a lot happier. 3) harriest feels that her brothers-in-law are impossible to get along with. 4) “what kind of car are you looking for?” asked the salesman.

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  8. riddi said – Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:09:37 -0000 ( Link )

    thanks everyone for responding and helping me….and a special thanks to Sureshbala:)

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  9. anmol2412 said – Tue, 10 Mar 2009 08:57:44 -0000 ( Link )

    “I” is a pronoun that must be the subject of a verb. “Me” is a pronoun that must be the object of the verb,so the first one will be ‘Your husband doesn’t believe that you are older than me’.

    Again.. ‘They’ cannot be the object of a sentence. So the Second will be ‘Maybe we are not as rich as them.’

    The plural of Brother-in-law is Brothers-in-law, so Brother-in-laws is completely wrong.

    In the fourth one kind of will be used because..I don’t know but Kind of will be used.

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