What is wrong?

brainy · Fri Oct 15, 2004 12:31 pm *What is wrong?*

hi,
i would like to know what is wrong in this sentence:
'The broom was not but her poor friend"

brainy · Fri Oct 15, 2004 12:36 pm *What is wrong?*

sorry guys!
that was not the broom but the groom!
so the sentence would be.'' the Grooom was not but her poor friend'...
now what is grammatically wrong in this sentence?

Torsten · Fri Oct 15, 2004 20:33 pm *The groom was but her poor friend wasn't*

Hi Brainy,

Could you please give us some more context? What exactly do you want to say?

How about this:

Marry invited her best friend Tanya to her wedding. Most people at the party were happy - at least the groom was but her poor friend Tanya wasn't because...
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brainy · Sat Oct 16, 2004 17:08 pm *What is wrong?*

hi torsten
you wrote 'was but her poor friend''..i don't know..maybe that was the sentence i was looking for..
my original sentence was..'was not but her poor friend'..so i guess we shouldn't include negation?

Torsten · Sat Oct 16, 2004 17:10 pm *More context?*

Hi Brainy,

Some more context would be helpful here.
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