We vs us (Would you recommend any reading for 'we' students?)

English as a Second Language English Vocabulary, Grammar and Idioms
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Hello everyone,

Would you recommend any reading for we students?

I’d like to know: Why did the author use ‘for we students’ rather than ‘for us students’? Please help me out. Thanks in advance.

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It is Alan’s turn! ( or I hope Milanya is around :))

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I’d rather write ‘for us student.’

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Milanya is around, but the only person to answer a question

is the author him/herself. Milanya is by no means a mind reader.

“[F]or us, students” is grammatically correct, “for we students” is grammatically incorrect.
Maybe there were some context clues, but since context was NOT provided and Milanya is NOT clairvoyant …
This is all I have to say.

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“for us students” is correct…

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But, " we students " is the form normally used in England.

Anyway, it sounds a whole heap better than " us students. "

" us student " is so incorrect as to be non-existent.

Milanya, are you sure you are not clairvoyant.? :slight_smile: :slight_smile:

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You got me (not I) thoroughly confused.
Would you recommend any reading for we? does not sound right to me. Do you really think it is correct?

I can only read some people.

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I didn’t say it was correct grammatically, just that it sounds a whole lot better.

Would you recommend any reading for we? does not sound right to me. Do you really think it is correct?

But you would say, " Could you recommend any reading for us? That is correct isn’t it .?

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Grammar, like the Law, is sometimes an ass.!! Just because it is accepted by the experts, doesn’t necessarily follow that it is accepted by the public.

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Why don’t we make it “wee students”, and we are back on track?

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If Infin1ty agrees, why not?

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Hi Gray,

How about: Can you recommend us students what/something to read? Remember that you need ‘us’ because it is an indirect object and it is also an object after ‘for’. Consider also: We students want to read something. In that sentence ‘we’ is needed because it is the subject.

Alan

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Thank you all, for your kind help. I never expected that I could receive so many replies.

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Thanks Alan. It is quite clear now.

Moving next, I shouldn’t cease to ask questions :slight_smile:

What idioms we could have to say that ‘it is quite clear’?

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“as clear as crystal” or “crystal clear”
“as clear/plain as day”

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That is as clear as crystal.

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We students voted Jack leader.

Is “we” an intensive pronoun or an pronoun modifier or something else?

It’s not a demonstrative pronoun, so what is it?

How would “we” be termed in the context of a grammar exercise?

This is driving me nuts. It’s what brought me to this forum and this thread.

Thanks in advance,

Donna