On Nov 7, 3:51 pm, Cheburashka Gozaimas <cheburashkagozai...@gmail.com> wrote: I dunno, It's like. I heard a story about myself. I heard two stories about myself. I heard the stories about myself. No one is saying that the use of a definite or an indefinite articles makes the sentences above ungrammatical. "The" is very similiar in meaning to "this", "that", "these", and "those"
Farhad wrote: On Nov 6, 11:32 am, "Adrian Bailey" <da...@hotmail.com> wrote: 2 concerns "stories about me", while 1 concerns my telling something about myself. In other words, in 1 the sense is reflexive while in 2 it is not. In other words, that the antecedent of reflexives and reciprocals (collectively called "anaphors") must be in the same, informally speaking, clause
On Nov 6, 11:32 am, "Adrian Bailey" <da...@hotmail.com> wrote: 2 concerns "stories about me", while 1 concerns my telling something about myself. In other words, in 1 the sense is reflexive while in 2 it is not. In other words, that the antecedent of reflexives and reciprocals (collectively called "anaphors") must be in the same, informally speaking, clause is not necessarily restricted
On 2007-11-06 17:23:21 +0100, Derek Turner <frderek@cesmail.net> said: Farhad wrote: Hi, I'd like to have your comments on the following pairs of sentences in terms of grammaticality: 1.1. I told stories about myself. 1.2. I told stories about me. 2.1. I heard stories about myself. 2.2. I heard stories about me. Thanks a million, Farhad
