Smasharoo wrote:
Did anyone actually think that I meant to say that Alton Brown just made tacos using store bought shells and seasoning on his show?
Everyone who can read English did.
No. One person misread what I wrote and asked about it. You jumped on it in your usual desperate need to tear me down at any opportunity you get, presumably because it makes you feel better about yourself to do so. Then, when I clearly and logically pointed out that what I'd written was actually grammatically correct and meant exactly what I intended it to mean, instead of wisely dropping the issue like Poldaran did, you decided to up the ante and flail about in ever increasingly more bizarre arguments to try to sway someone that maybe you're right.
Let's recap. First you claimed "complete with" was a verb phrase (actually, you called it "verb the phrase", but I'm assuming that the "the" was accidental, because in your example of how to fix it, you changed "complete with" to "the sort with"). Then you claimed the phrase after those words acted as an object to the verb "reproduce", which, even if true, still resulted in a sentence that didn't mean what you claimed it meant. Then, and this one takes the cake, you argued that "complete with" was a subordinate conjunction, and that the remaining bits were a clause and not a phrase, despite the fact that there is no verb in those remaining words at all, and thus it cannot be a clause and must be a phrase. You then also claimed it acted as an adverb (not sure how or why you changed tactics from object to adverb, but you did), which also makes absolutely zero grammatical sense.
Then, apparently because you realized how moronic your argument was, you stopped trying to claim any understanding of what grammatical terms might actually apply and have proceeded to just toss insults at me.
You were seriously closest with the whole "they're objects of the verb reproduce". It's wrong, of course, but at least it's a grammatically legitimate possible interpretation of the sentence. Again though, as I've pointed out a few times, this still leaves us with him reproducing store bought taco shells and seasoning, not using them in his reproduction as you claimed.
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I'm not sure why you are so amazingly invested in and concerned with it.
There's a pot and kettle joke here somewhere. All I've done is respond to your posts.
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You're a shitty writer, the way I'd expect a moron to be, complete with bad grammar and word choices.
Yeah. Keep telling yourself that. So is it an object, or an adjective, or a verb Smash? A clause? A phrase? Lol! Did you think you'd just toss words at a wall and hope one of them stuck?