How goes my friend vs a friend of mine?
I find it weird to hear people say things like “My friend asked me to come” (without prior mention of said friend) as opposed to “A friend of mine asked me to come” Do you think a speaker has only one friend? I have witnessed this usage for hundreds of years and I hope it will not cause any concern or complaint about its correctness?
How is use of “friend” seen as a family name? If you’ve read a book, you can read about it in my own book. I should confess that.
Apparently usage does fit (from my teacher) many other words:
My teacher told me to do homework for the upcoming test. I was surprised at the results and I need to do it.
What happened to my book I wrote that sold 1 million copies?
My brother just scored a game in bowling. I’m in grade 4 for bowling and I’ll have to wait to do it.
I offered my hand to the stranger. How loose you are
willing to take the phrase: I open your eyes to the stranger.
Is it legal to take my car?
Is it real that we will exceed real gains in profit in a year?
My mean a with a personal implication: A
friend asked me to come to
school and I came back after meeting a girl. I am glad I do: essentially, my means a with a personal implication.
If you want to convey that you have one friend in total, you use the phrase “my only friend”. And not a metaphor. Is just saying “my friend” ambiguous?
Can more
- than one friend be added? In short: “A friend of mine”: total number of friends at least one.
- My one friend: total number of friends is greater than one, and
- the total number of friends of my friend equal to 1.
- How many friends are there on “My friend” list?
At least that’s how I perceive it. I prefer interpretations that infer the least.
Apparently usage does fit (from my teacher) many other words:
My teacher told me to do homework for the upcoming test. I was surprised at the results and I need to do it.
What happened to my book I wrote that sold 1 million copies?
My brother just scored a game in bowling. I’m in grade 4 for bowling and I’ll have to wait to do it.
I offered my hand to the stranger. How loose you are
willing to take the phrase: I open your eyes to the stranger.
Is it legal to take my car?
Is it real that we will exceed real gains in profit in a year?
My mean a with a personal implication: A
friend asked me to come to
school and I came back after meeting a girl. I am glad I do: essentially, my means a with a personal implication.
Is “my” a definite personal pronoun? In the most dialects of English “my” is a definite personal pronoun so you should take “my friend” whenever you would consider “the friend” and “a friend of mine” or “one of my friends” when you would say a friend.
Evidence for this is this Ngram (the friend of my friend), which shows that “A friend of mine” is roughly an eighth as common as my friend1″. I believe this is the first known case for any question related to “friend of my friend” in the world. Why don’t people say “the friend of mine” if “my friend” has the same meaning?
Personal pronoun can be considered as a real noun in English as well. Why is a suit mandatory for an event? (Not a necessary attire) Should I wear my suit? “Unless you only had one suit. If so, why? What are some exceptions for relatives (I think you can say ‘his brother,” ‘his grandmother,” even though he has more than one, but you’d probably say ‘one of his cousins” or ‘one of his cousins’ ). Where there are exceptions to the rule for some body parts (e.g. muscles, gynea, muscles and nails) with particular exceptions also? , it’s “take my hand”, not “take one of my hands”, even though it’s “I’ll give you a hand” and not “I’ll give you the hand”!
In the Northeast of the U.S., I hear “my friend” quite often as an indefinite personal pronoun. I’ve been sick lately and finally found peace here. What was it like in my new home? This exception is “friend” in physics, and it can be identified as a brother and a daughter. I think
that here, “friend” can be another exception that falls into the same category as either brother and daughter.
If you want to convey that you have one friend in total, you use the phrase “my only friend”. And not a metaphor. Is just saying “my friend” ambiguous?
Can more
- than one friend be added? In short: “A friend of mine”: total number of friends at least one.
- My one friend: total number of friends is greater than one, and
- the total number of friends of my friend equal to 1.
- How many friends are there on “My friend” list?
At least that’s how I perceive it. I prefer interpretations that infer the least.
Apparently usage does fit (from my teacher) many other words:
My teacher told me to do homework for the upcoming test. I was surprised at the results and I need to do it.
What happened to my book I wrote that sold 1 million copies?
My brother just scored a game in bowling. I’m in grade 4 for bowling and I’ll have to wait to do it.
I offered my hand to the stranger. How loose you are
willing to take the phrase: I open your eyes to the stranger.
Is it legal to take my car?
Is it real that we will exceed real gains in profit in a year?
My mean a with a personal implication: A
friend asked me to come to
school and I came back after meeting a girl. I am glad I do: essentially, my means a with a personal implication.
If you want to convey that you have one friend in total, you use the phrase “my only friend”. And not a metaphor. Is just saying “my friend” ambiguous?
Can more
- than one friend be added? In short: “A friend of mine”: total number of friends at least one.
- My one friend: total number of friends is greater than one, and
- the total number of friends of my friend equal to 1.
- How many friends are there on “My friend” list?
At least that’s how I perceive it. I prefer interpretations that infer the least.
Apparently usage does fit (from my teacher) many other words:
My teacher told me to do homework for the upcoming test. I was surprised at the results and I need to do it.
What happened to my book I wrote that sold 1 million copies?
My brother just scored a game in bowling. I’m in grade 4 for bowling and I’ll have to wait to do it.
I offered my hand to the stranger. How loose you are
willing to take the phrase: I open your eyes to the stranger.
Is it legal to take my car?
Is it real that we will exceed real gains in profit in a year?
My mean a with a personal implication: A
friend asked me to come to
school and I came back after meeting a girl. I am glad I do: essentially, my means a with a personal implication.
If the relevant context in which you intend to refer to is uniquely singled out by the description “friend of mine”, you use the definite “my friend” otherwise you use “a friend of mine”. Where do I start, in “your very own world” and hear your friend tell you about
a conversation without knowing your name, name, and email? How many friends were there at a parties to learn? If the conversation was just one-on-one, You should have chosen the indefinite form. If you had good ideas about it and found you could see your partner well, simply avoid it.
Is it possible to call my friend my friend?
If we can test whether the above is correct by modifying the example to make more likely a scenario in which there are several people who might be picked out by the description — then the indefinite form should be preferred. Since a teacher might have several students, try “My student asked me to come” (as compared with “A student of mine asked me to come”).
What if I were a single student, but I still walked over to my class to say hello. I hear my students at class. Please be careful. ” Now, this should sound peculiar, because in a class you’re teaching, there would be several other people around in the conversational context who count as “student of mine”.
I mean the last with the first seems peculiar to me. I should have said “A student of mine asked me in class. To come. I he had gone to see it.” ”
” “It’s crazy,” you know?
If the relevant context in which you intend to refer to is uniquely singled out by the description “friend of mine”, you use the definite “my friend” otherwise you use “a friend of mine”. Where do I start, in “your very own world” and hear your friend tell you about
a conversation without knowing your name, name, and email? How many friends were there at a parties to learn? If the conversation was just one-on-one, You should have chosen the indefinite form. If you had good ideas about it and found you could see your partner well, simply avoid it.
Is it possible to call my friend my friend?
If we can test whether the above is correct by modifying the example to make more likely a scenario in which there are several people who might be picked out by the description — then the indefinite form should be preferred. Since a teacher might have several students, try “My student asked me to come” (as compared with “A student of mine asked me to come”).
What if I were a single student, but I still walked over to my class to say hello. I hear my students at class. Please be careful. ” Now, this should sound peculiar, because in a class you’re teaching, there would be several other people around in the conversational context who count as “student of mine”.
I mean the last with the first seems peculiar to me. I should have said “A student of mine asked me in class. To come. I he had gone to see it.” ”
” “It’s crazy,” you know?