Right pedants, ds1 (2.10),in between being a meerkat and asking his father 'daddy, what's a credit crunch?' this evening came out with the following, which he claims is a line in the tidying-up song on BCLC (I was obviously mning cooking dinner at the time):
blah blah blah blah blah blah
make it sparkle and clean
Now I don't like that, but I'm not sure why (and I grant you that he may have got it wrong and it might be 'make it sparkly and clean'. But if it isn't, it works grammatically, but it's just not right.
Is it just because 'sparkle' is a verb and 'clean' is an adjective here?
Or is it because 'clean' could be a verb too, and you expect another verb, so you're waiting to find out the object of the verb?
Or what?
I am sorry to say I spent the DCs' entire bath-time pondering this conundrum.
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midnightexpress · 07/09/2008 20:52
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