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Sentence verb: to be Who is being by somebody (the subject): you Who is the subject being by (the object): yourself The grammar in the original sentence is c
by Borealid 4y ago
Sentence verb: to be
Who is being by somebody (the subject): you
Who is the subject being by (the object): yourself
The grammar in the original sentence is correct, you're just getting confused about which word is the verb. "Repairable" is not a verb, it is an adjective.
Another way to phrase the same sentence would be "by yourself, you can repair the system". Another phrasing would be "you can repair the system when you are by yourself". You would not say "by you, you can repair the system".
"Repairable by you" is a different, also grammatically correct sentence, with a different meaning. "You can repair it" and "you can repair it on your own" (aka "by yourself") mean two different things.
- pessimizer 4y agoThe subject of "the phone is repairable" is the phone. If you want to say "I think the phone is repairable by myself" it's grammatical, but strange because people don't usually think with assistance. subject: I verb: think object: the phone is repairable adverb: by myself edit: I think I'm agreeing with you, but I couldn't tell what you meant by "the original sentence."