Optional@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.world · 2 months agoTeachers are not having a good timelemmy.worldimagemessage-square36fedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: usauthoritarianism@lemmy.world
arrow-up18arrow-down1imageTeachers are not having a good timelemmy.worldOptional@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square36fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: usauthoritarianism@lemmy.world
minus-squaree_chao@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoThis is a really good point, but I feel like an English teacher would have written “whom I married.”
minus-squareGojuRyu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoNon native English speaker here with a genuine question; wouldn’t “telling the students whom I married” mean that the teacher married the students instead of telling students about their spouse?
minus-squaree_chao@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoI think you’re right. The clause should actually be something like “disclose to my students the gender of my spouse.” How does that sound?
This is a really good point, but I feel like an English teacher would have written “whom I married.”
Non native English speaker here with a genuine question; wouldn’t “telling the students whom I married” mean that the teacher married the students instead of telling students about their spouse?
I think you’re right. The clause should actually be something like “disclose to my students the gender of my spouse.” How does that sound?