A Grammatical question:

james-bond • 19 July 2012 at 6:19 AM

I have a question about this sentance which I don't know the answer to:

I was walking with these doctors, Sally and Connor.

Does this mean that Sally and Connor were doctors? Or were the doctors, Sally and Connor all different people?


Does anyone know? 😱

@mika_milile

sunshinecat • 19 July 2012 at 6:25 AM

@james-bond I think Sally and Connor would be the doctors just from how it sounds.
Using 'these' suggests that you're talking about specific people. If it was just some doctors and Sally + Connor, you'd probably use 'some doctors' or some other phrase.
It could mean either technically, though.

zafeyry • 19 July 2012 at 7:26 PM

@james-bond
If they were separate people there would probably be a comma after Sally 😊 But, there was a new law of grammar passed (really, my crazy English teacher told us about this and flipped out because she's a grammar nerd) that says you don't have to put a comma after Sally and it could be different people. To clear it up, you could say "I was walking with these doctors, whom are Sally and Connor."