Re: [b] -- Best advert

[Nick Mailer <nickm@xxxxxxxxx>]

Subintellectual wrote:

> > It would never be me enjoying an advert.
>
> How about with a comma? Because your enjoyment is essentially abstract, 
> so hard to capture on video. Whereas you, I understand, are real.

Well, if you put a comma there, then you have abused the nominative with 
a naughty accusative, haven't you? So no cigar. When a gerund sounds 
clumsy, then reform the phrase with a simpler, more direct construction.


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