Camack
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grammar help please "each one"
ok...another editing dilemma...which would be correct?
Then she carefully folded each one before placing them in the dresser.
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Then she carefully folded each one before placing it in the dresser.
"them" or "it"???
Seems like the second would be correct, but the first sounds better.
[Edited on 6/29/2010 by Camack]
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jules
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Hi Camack-
What context are you using the sentence in? What are the folded items?
Either would be correct, but I would drop the "then". I guess you are going for the difference between singular and plural? I'm more comfortable
with the second.
+-------MVp------+
+-------Ss-------+----Os----+ | +----MVp----+----Js---+
+-CO-+ +----Em---+ +-Ds+ +--Mgp--+---Ox--+ | +--Ds--+
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then.e she carefully folded.v each one before placing.v them in the dresser.n
Constituent tree:
(S (PP Then)
(S (NP she)
(VP (ADVP carefully)
folded
(NP each one)
(PP before
(S (VP placing
(NP them)
(PP in
(NP the dresser))))))))
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+----------------------------------------Xp-----------------------------
| +-------MVp------+
+------Wd-----+-------Ss-------+----Os----+ | +---MVp---+----J
| +-CO-+ +----Em---+ +-Ds+ +--Mgp--+--Ox--+ | +--
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LEFT-WALL then.e she carefully folded.v each one before placing.v it in the
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s---+ |
Ds--+ |
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dresser.n .
Constituent tree:
(S (PP Then)
(S (NP she)
(VP (ADVP carefully)
folded
(NP each one)
(PP before
(S (VP placing
(NP it)
(PP in
(NP the dresser)))))))
.)
That's how they look parsed out.
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Nancy G.
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Each one=singular. "It", not them.
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Camack
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Thanks Nancy. That's the one I thought was right. Thank you Jules, too.
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Jules. I have to ask. What was all that?
Melanie 
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The sentence diagrammed out. Subject, verb, etc. A way to determine grammatic structure. Sorry if it didn't make sense in the context I used it.
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Hmm.. okay. Thanks.
I thought it was something like that but couldn't decipher all the MvP, PP, XP, OX stuff.
I was never too big on diagramming sentences. 
Melanie
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I loved diagramming sentences in school, but I didn't understand it, either. Sometimes simpler is best.
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I'm into the minutia sometimes. It's a personal struggle. 
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