What or whom – ship – and what are their ?
I know, we use she for ship instead of it.
How do we make a description of a ship?
“The ship which left the harbour at…” or “The ship who left the harbour at…”
I have been told it is with which, but I found these novels:
- The Ship Who Sang
- The Ship Who Searched
Also I made two simple searches in Google for exact matches. What is the
- real answer to “ship who,ship which,ship
- which?”
Can you explain both examples?
How do we understand your views on the world?
“The ship that left the harbour at…” or “The ship who left the harbour at…” I seems you meant LEFT and not LEAVED.
(Letter from the author) Coming to the answer of your query,it looks where ship was described as WHO. Is it a metaphoric use by a poet or writer? People attached to a ship emotionally are known to regard her as a beloved, mother, or goddess. For lesser mortals WHICH shall be okay.
The use of “she ” to describe ships is a poetic tradition. She doesnt make them into women. How they are still objects? Does using which or this work?
These are both novels – I could write a novel called The Rock Who Sing and that wouldn’t change the meaning of “rock” as far as the English language was concerned.
As far as searching for “ship who” as a search term goes, I should still be looking “this” but don’t think people will do so. If I do search on “ship
who" - "the ship who sang" ie,
removing results with “the ship who sang” goes down to 34,000.
If I search for “ship” , I get 6. In fact, search for this gives 11. What is the truth about 5 million results?
At the best of times, comparing the number of Google search results is a very unreliable way of determined the correctness of anything. More like Google ngrams, which looks at the content of books, which are more reliable ways to view the idiomatic use of words. E.g.
an essay in English?
