| 词组 | us |
| 释义 | us Like the other personal pronouns, us turns up in contexts where the schoolbooks have long said it does not belong. As might be expected, it occurs after the verb be: • This is this year, and we are us —Paul Horgan, Ladies' Home Jour., January 1971 And it is common in an emphatic position at the beginning of a statement: • Us kids at Concord school in Mr. Thompson's reading class are studying dictionaries —letter from a schoolgirl in Pennsylvania, March 1980 • ... a sense of departmental loyalty: us against them —Jay Mclnerney, Bright Lights, Big City, 1984 A little harder to explain are the other appearances in subject position: • This is not what us journalists call a "happy beat" — Hunter S. Thompson, Rolling Stone, 2 Mar. 1972 • ... wherein us romantics are supposed to accept Ava Gardner as Omar Sharif s royal mama —Judith Crist, TV Guide, 27 July 1973 These vexing usages and kindred problems concerning personal pronouns are discussed and illustrated at various places in this book. We suggest that you start with it's me and pronouns. These will lead you to other points of interest. |
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