answer the question in my sig

abiraniriba

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We're not getting anywhere

Yes D'snowth liquids is a word. If I had water in one glass and a Long Island Iced Tea in another glass, you might say I had two very different liquids. As for my sig. I see nobody here is an English student so I'l help you.

The sentence: "Green, colorless worms eat liquids" is a simple declarative sentence arranged in a Subject, Verb, Object format. "Green, colorless worms" = Subject, "eat" = Verb, "liquids" = Object. All the words are legitimate words and are in the correct tense and subject-verb agreement forms. In other words the sentence is grammatically correct. Meaningless, yes, considering that green and colorless are two mutually exclusive adjectives, and that eat is a verb properly applied to a solid food item rather than a liquid one, but grammatically there's nothing wrong with it.

Now that I've solved that problem, I'm going to drink one of the two liquids mentioned in my first paragraph. Which one should I drink, hmmmmm?
 

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abiraniriba said:
I said, Is there anything GRAMMATICALLY wrong with the sentence?
Again, I didn't miss the point, I'm kidding around. Maybe you missed the point of my post. :wink:

Sorry.

I am looking forward to your next signature, unless I've completely turned you off of this game. :big_grin:
 

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Well, you cant "eat" liquids. You drink them...but thats not grmatical...I dont think...
 

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Try this one on for size

Okay Scoot and everyone else. I drank the water and gave the Long Island Iced Tea to my 5 month old son Johnathan (just kidding :halo: ) now try and analyze this new signature.
 

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It should be, "we are both figments of each other's imaginations?"
 

abiraniriba

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Not really heralde

The you in "you don't exist" is a plural you. It applies to everyone. The word both refers to just 2 people. In other words this philosophy cancels out everyone's existence.
 

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heralde said:
It should be, "we are both figments of each other's imaginations?"
unless you add "nobody else exists"

Never mind. I was ziffeled. :wink:

Seriously this one does intrigue me. The denial of our existence mentality. Maybe our problems in theory won't worry us if we think we don't really exist so we can't be plagued by them. :big_grin:
 

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Ah, I didn't know if you meant the plural 'you' or not.

Right, we can't all be figments of each other's imagination, at least one person has to be real.
 
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