Posted by Jock on January 29, 2008 at 10:56:15 from 87.105.81.146 user Jock.
In Reply to: Re: Grammar posted by Pam Adams on January 29, 2008 at 00:30:25:
Susan (blowing the mate's whistle): "Able Seaman Titty, water the flowers!"
Brackets, weren't popular in AR's time, and are deprecated on this side of the pond.
Since we know that Susan is the mate and Titty is the Able Seaman the use of both
introduces unnecessary redundancy. The main sentence has a subject, a subordinate clause,
but no main verb. Before Roger was promoted to able seaman, AR might have written:
The mate blew her whistle and called out, "Able Seaman, water the flowers."