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Tue 17 Jun, 2014 11:43 am
Should "what she feels is an unsatisfactory response" be "what she feels as an unsatisfactory response"?
Context:
In Sweden, Freese is asked by Queen Silvia how to define space. She
answers, but is immediately embarrassed by what she feels is an
unsatisfactory response. "An awkward silence followed, and I felt a
mounting sense of panic," she writes. I cannot imagine a man making
such an admission.
@oristarA,
oristarA wrote:
Should "what she feels is an unsatisfactory response" be "what she feels as an unsatisfactory response"?
No. You are possibly thinking of the expression 'sees as' (considers). 'Is' is correct.
@contrex,
contrex wrote:
oristarA wrote:
Should "what she feels is an unsatisfactory response" be "what she feels as an unsatisfactory response"?
No. You are possibly thinking of the expression 'sees as' (considers). 'Is' is correct.
That is: the major part is " what is an unsatisfactory response"? Then we put in "she feels"?
@oristarA,
You do understand that it is Freese who 'feels (that what she just said to the Queen) is an unsatisfactory response'?
I am of the old school. The punctuation I have used was fine for my generation, and makes more sense to me than '...an unsatisfactory response?'
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