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November 17, 2021, 22:53
BobHale
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I just posted a sentence like this on FB. What word would you put in the gap? We or us? Both sound wrong to me for different reasons.

[It's] a thick brown vinegary sauce with the consistency of what you, though not _____, might call jelly. We would say jam.


"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
November 18, 2021, 06:15
Geoff
You're in a jam about jelly? I'd say "we."
November 18, 2021, 14:23
tinman
We.
November 18, 2021, 15:15
BobHale
"We" was my first thought as it fits grammatically but it just sounds wrong when I say it out loud. Maybe it's just me.


"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
November 22, 2021, 19:46
Kalleh
Interesting. I'd say "I". "We" sounds wrong to me too.
December 24, 2021, 17:54
Kalleh
Well - I just came back to this and now I'd say "We." Roll Eyes
December 25, 2021, 18:23
bethree5
Chiming in late, Kalleh, but I prefer your alternative "I" even tho it doesn't convey Bob's precise meaning. Just something off about either we or us in that sentence.
December 28, 2021, 19:11
Kalleh
Yes, I agree. Now I do think "we" sounds better, with the connotation of "you" being plural.
January 04, 2022, 05:22
zmježd
I'd say or write "we" in the gap. (If one wanted to be pretentious, I suppose one could use "one".


Ceci n'est pas un seing.