Sigh. Use the Nominative for Your Subjects

rogersgeorge on June 12th, 2020

It’s we do things, not us do things. Just because you throw in some extra words doesn’t mean you can change that. Third panel.

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2 Responses to “Sigh. Use the Nominative for Your Subjects”

JessieJune 13th, 2020 at 9:49 am

I’ve read somewhere that “bun” was an older English word for squirrel, so maybe this is not so inappropriate?

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