Marcio_Osorio

Can you please tell me how to do this one?

I tried, "W. Harrison grandfathered B. Harrison," just to discover that No, grandfathered has a completely different meaning--it does not have the same conotation as fathered.

You'd probably have something better than writing, "W. Harrison made himself the grandfather of B. Harrison," I suppose?

Thank you.

Re-edit: "I identify W. Harrison as the maternal grandfather of B. Harrison." Do all the forum E-Primers think it acceptabe?

parmina

W.Harrison, known as the grandfather of B.Harrison..(if there exists a continuation of the phrase)
B.Harrison, known to all as grandson of W.Harrison.

Regards,
Parmina

Marcio_Osorio

Thank you, parmina. I like your way of making it a continuation.

Instead of

"Daniel Boorstin was the grandson of Russian Jewish immigrants, and he studied at Harvard, Oxford, and Yale."

we'd have

"Daniel Boorstin, [known as] the grandson of Russian Jewish immigrants, studied at Harvard, Oxford, and Yale."

TheMisfortuneTeller

I might also suggest:

"B. Harrison, grandson of W. Harrison, [did something worth expending words to describe, etc.]"

or,

"W. Harrison's grandson, B. Harrison, [did something worth expending words to describe, etc.]"

Not only do words take their meaning from the context of the sentence in which they occur, but sentences acquire additional meaning, in turn, from the utterances that precede and/or follow them. An isolated predication, like The air [copula-inflection] hot, at best only provokes the question, "Well, what about the air and hot?", as the British pragmatist philosopher F. C. S. Schiller put the case in Formal Logic: a Scientific and Social Problem (1912).

In the particular example that began this thread, the "sentence" basically names the subject twice: once as the proper noun "B. Harrison," and again as the possessive noun phrase "the grandson of W. Harrison," without saying anything of significance about the subject. This multiple-naming of the subject reduces the copula-inflection, in effect, to a pair of commas that separate appositives (either words or phrases) from each other and from the rest of the sentence that should hopefully follow.

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