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Post by Pete on Jun 18, 2008 8:45:14 GMT
This has come up a couple of times recently. I just typed "What criteria do we need to satisfy?" into a Word document and the grammar check suggested changing "we" to "us".
And I was talking to a friend who has just moved house. Referring to the assembled company, I suggested that she should invite "us 6" as her first dinner party guests in her new home. She suggested that I should have referred to "we 6", as in "We three kings of Orient are ...".
What are the rules?
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Post by Verbivore on Jun 18, 2008 9:21:08 GMT
This has come up a couple of times recently. I just typed "What criteria do we need to satisfy?" into a Word document and the grammar check suggested changing "we" to "us". "What criteria do us need to satisfy?" What utter nonsense! MS-Word gets it wrong - again!Don't know about "rules", but your friend was either hypercorrecting or merely ignorant. Invite us (object case), so invite us six (object case). "We three kings of Orient are ..." is a different matter: it is a statement that declares: "We are three oriental kings". It bears no relation to us three / six / nine ... . Stick to your guns, Pete: you were correct in both usages. |
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Post by Dave on Jun 18, 2008 9:43:56 GMT
I copied and pasted this into my Word 2000, trying both US and UK English as the language setting, with no flagging of anything as being incorrect.
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Post by Verbivore on Jun 18, 2008 10:06:40 GMT
Okay - that prompted me to open Word (version X, 2001, for Mac) - something I very rarely do - to see what happened.
Nothing. No objection at all when I ran the (normally turned off) grammar and spelling checker.
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Post by Vadim on Jun 18, 2008 10:41:12 GMT
I wish I had your confidence, skills and knowledge to be able to turn mine off! On the subject though, MS Word on my PC detects no error for versions 2000, XP, 2003 and 2007 (I know I know!), however, there are so many options, I suggest it's probably one of these.
The option I use most effectively is the "Passive voice" checker. This may be more relevant for another post, so Paul, feel free to move it, but.....
What's the feeling on the "excessive" (to quote my [African] supervisor) use of passive voice? And is the "Flesch reading statistics etc. in MS Word, useful at all?
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Post by Paul Doherty on Jun 18, 2008 13:35:46 GMT
Locked as having run its course. Vadim, feel free to start another topic about passive voice.
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