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(English student here) The title should be "Startups ruins you" because it can be rewritten as "it ruins you", or I'm missing something here? Thanks!

by slig 13y ago

anaphor 13y ago
Do you know what my name means? Also, as others have pointed out, the particular anaphor you'd use here is "they" which is (generally) plural. Edit: sidenote, this is why linguists dislike many people in the humanities who blindly follow "rules" and end up writing badly as a result because they make hypercorrections all over the place.
- coldtea 13y ago
  >Do you know what my name means? Well, I do. In simple terms, a word refering to another one in the same sentense/text (e.g. "My Xbox arrived and it was great" -- it being an anaphor for the Xbox). It's a shortened version of the greek word "anaphora", which means "reference" / relation etc. It comes from the words ana (which roughly means "again" or "anew") and phora (pherein) which means "carries" (connotes, etc). In the example case, "it" "carries again" the banana (in the sense that it refers to it again from another place).
bri3d 13y ago
"Startups" is a plural noun. The appropriate replacement pronoun as the subject is "they," giving "they ruin you," which is a proper English clause to the best of my knowledge.
eterm 13y ago
The word Startups is plural, and plural subjects have verbs with out the 's'. So while "it ruins you" is correct for singular, the title comes from "They ruin you".
pmichaud 13y ago
"Startups" is plural, so "Startups ruin you" is correct. If it were singular it would be "[A] startup ruins you."
Kronopath 13y ago
"Startups" is plural, so "ruin" is correct. The sentence can be rewritten as "They ruin you", not "It ruins you".
jfarmer 13y ago
"Startups ruin you" can't be rewritten as "It ruin you," though, yeah? It could be rewritten as "They ruin you," however. "Startups" is plural. "A startup" or "that startup" and so on is singular. "A startup ruins you" would be a fine English sentence.

(English student here) The title should be "Startups ruins you" because it can be rewritten as "it ruins you", or I'm missing something here? Thanks!

by slig 13y ago

(English student here) The title should be "Startups ruins you" because it can be rewritten as "it ruins you", or I'm missing something here? Thanks!

anaphor 13y ago

Do you know what my name means? Also, as others have pointed out, the particular anaphor you'd use here is "they" which is (generally) plural. Edit: sidenote, this is why linguists dislike many people in the humanities who blindly follow "rules" and end up writing badly as a result because they make hypercorrections all over the place.

coldtea 13y ago
>Do you know what my name means? Well, I do. In simple terms, a word refering to another one in the same sentense/text (e.g. "My Xbox arrived and it was great" -- it being an anaphor for the Xbox). It's a shortened version of the greek word "anaphora", which means "reference" / relation etc. It comes from the words ana (which roughly means "again" or "anew") and phora (pherein) which means "carries" (connotes, etc). In the example case, "it" "carries again" the banana (in the sense that it refers to it again from another place).

bri3d 13y ago

"Startups" is a plural noun. The appropriate replacement pronoun as the subject is "they," giving "they ruin you," which is a proper English clause to the best of my knowledge.

eterm 13y ago

The word Startups is plural, and plural subjects have verbs with out the 's'. So while "it ruins you" is correct for singular, the title comes from "They ruin you".

pmichaud 13y ago

"Startups" is plural, so "Startups ruin you" is correct. If it were singular it would be "[A] startup ruins you."

Kronopath 13y ago

"Startups" is plural, so "ruin" is correct. The sentence can be rewritten as "They ruin you", not "It ruins you".

jfarmer 13y ago

"Startups ruin you" can't be rewritten as "It ruin you," though, yeah? It could be rewritten as "They ruin you," however. "Startups" is plural. "A startup" or "that startup" and so on is singular. "A startup ruins you" would be a fine English sentence.