C. Faulkner on the Possessive Antecedent Proscription
Lesa Dill
lesa.dill at WKU.EDU
Wed Jun 4 16:23:56 UTC 2003
When were you at Arkansas? I went through the same thing. I felt like I didn't
know anything when I taught what he'd taught us. I guess I did learn more than I
thought. I was there for my masters in 81-82, I think.
"Bethany K. Dumas" wrote:
> >I'm not sure. I do remember his covering that. When we went over usage, we
> >had a series of lengthy tests with all sorts of constructions. (I still use
> >those in my grammar class to show the narrower interpretations of correct
> >usage--something students are completely ignorant of.) Those constructions are
> >on those old tests. I also think that he discussed the error when he talked
> >about their needing to be a possessive case subject idea with gerunds (a
> >concept much more debatable than he allowed). Since the possessive functioned
> >with repect to the gerund only, further references in the sentence needed to be
> >to the idea represented in the gerund and not to something modifying that
> >gerund.
>
> That sounds like him!
>
> As I told Arnold earlier, I never had freshman English - so when I arrived
> at graduate school and was to teach freshman English, I took Claude's
> course (400) in how to teach freshman comp. He did his best to keep us a
> day or two ahead of our students.
>
> The thing I most remember from that semester and freshman English was that
> I taught a young football player 5 days a week - I was teaching "X"
> (remedial) English, and the poor guy had to come to a MWF class and also
> a TR lab with me. His name was Tommy Brasher (sp?), and he later played
> pro football.
>
> Bethany
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