Me:
I literally still don't know the answer to the a while/awhile debate.
"Finally, just to make it confusing, if you rephrase the previous sentence and replace the adverb with a prepositional phrase, you need the noun again because an adverb can't be the object of the preposition."
DG:
hahaha
ok, try this.
you said I'll make fun of you for a while.
are you describe the manner you'll make fun of or describing a length of time
Me:
Si.
DG:
So, since you're describing the length of time, it's a noun.
Me:
Seems like time would be a verb.
But, okay.
DG:
But if you were talking about the manner in which you were doing something, like "mocking awhile"
The time would be a verb? That doesn't even make sense. Verb is an action word.
Me:
Obvi.
And time moves.
DG:
haha.
Me:
Like, time is moving.
DG:
Right, so does a car
but that's not a verb
me:
But a car is a noun.
DG:
haha
exactly
you need some grammar bootcamp, baby gurl
Me:
But time is always moving. I don't know. I just see time as a verb for some reason.
DG:
hahaha
def not a verb.
haha
Me:
Dione, I want it to be a verb. In my heart.
DG:
And in my heart I want unrelatedly to be a word. But its not.
welcome to grammatical disappointment.
Me:
Damn that unrelatedly. I swear I'm putting it in my thesis.
YOU WATCH! I bet no one will catch it either.
DG:
hahaha.
Probs not.
I want to use it enough that it becomes a word.
Me:
"Unrelatedly, systems of higher education in America are broken."
DG:
Like "normalcy" and FDR.
hahaha.
Me:
I mean, there are so many ridiculous words that are ACTUAL words that it makes no sense those aren't. Also, It makes no sense that time isn't a verb.
DG:
no. it makes perfect sense.
How would you conjugate this "verb"
Well, ok. I guess you could.
But then it is used as a verb. Haha.
Then "time" would be the verb in the infinitive form.
and that makes no sense.
Me:
Dione, I feel like me realizing that time is a verb is like the hidden key of grammar that no one has thought of before. We're going to be rich.
DG:
STOP.
NOTAVERB
Why? Because I have a firm grasp of grammar and I know that time, in this case, is a noun.
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And this is why I love you two oh so much.
I can't believe that actually went on and that I actually read the whole freaking thing. Awesome.
In honor of my nerdiness I have to correct you and say that is Harding that created the world normalcy during his Presidential campaign, not FDR.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/normalcy
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