Good Morning.
A bedspread is not a toaster, and a bar of soap will not heat the house but a furnace will. Similarly, an adjective is not an adverb, and a subject is not an object. Verbs are conjugated according to whatever I am doing or you, we, or they are doing. There also are things called tenses that have something to do with the past, present, and future. We'll keep it simple and leave it there, but the point is you may do a lot of good in the world and you may do well at work and get a raise, but you didn't sing the song good; you sang it well and everybody clapped. The Johnsons had gone to the lake to go fishing; they hadn't went there or anywhere else for that matter. Louise doesn't know anything about knitting; what she doesn't know is nothing about it. Fred didn't take her and I out for dinner; he took her out for dinner but not I. The easiest solution here is that Fred took us out for dinner and we both had the Maryland crab cakes. Her and I didn't have the crab cakes nor her and me. Either she and I had them or we didn't.
Consider the following scenario: Judith, a senior in high school, is brilliant in math and wants to attend a certain university and become an engineer. She has an interview with someone in the admissions department, shows up on time in an attractive outfit, and takes a seat across a desk from one of the people who will decide whether she is accepted at the school.
Dean of Students: Good afternoon, Judith. Tell me why you'd like to attend this fine university and have student loans for twenty years.
Judith: Well my cousin came here and her and I get along real good. We just got back from a camping trip and one night we had already went into the tent with our Margaritas when the park ranger came and told us that a bad storm was about to hit. We ran for the lodge and the power had went out but we met two hot dudes who were tennis players. My cousin and me didn't know nothing about tennis.
Judith was not accepted at the school of her choice, not because she was doing a little underage consuming, not because she referred to the guys at the lodge as hot, and not because she wasn't familiar with the game of tennis. Judith wasn't accepted because she didn't pay attention in English class, while her cousin, Henrietta, apparently did. Today Henrietta is making six figures in San Francisco, Judith is looking for another school, the Johnsons caught only two fish between them, Louise dropped a stitch, and Fred was just elected mayor of Baltimore.
Best regards,
Elisabeth
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