Does this sentence make sense.

danjo-xx

"Without being presumptuous, no more gifts for me please"

pablo128

*sentence*

koumi

This sentence does

lawred2

erm...

koumi

sure, thanks

frag420

I won't buy you a gift op....

frozenfrozen

it does

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

danjo-xx wrote: »

"Without being presumptuous, no more gifts for me please"

No. It is a partial sentence but the general sense is there.

lawred2

Brennan Dry Molasses wrote: »

No. It is a partial sentence but the general sense is there.

what's partial about it?

danjo-xx

danjo-xx wrote: »

"Without being presumptuous, no more gifts for me please"

So how many gifts did you get and why don't you want any more?

me_right_one

It would if spoken, but its probably grammatically incorrect when written down.

Cortina_MK_IV

You like forgot the awmmm period at the end dude.

(Oops, wrong thread.)

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

lawred2 wrote: »

what's partial about it?

It is two clauses without a verb in the second.
A semicolon instead of a comma would help greatly.

deadybai

that would be an ecumenical matter!

danjo-xx

Does the word 'presumptuous' here mean, not assuming or expecting to you guys, that is what I'm hoping it does.

Ficheall

Your understanding of "presumptuous" is correct. It's not a "proper" sentence, but it's perfectly understandable.

Barry Badrinath

Is that a Kerry accent OP?

Jaysis I havent a clue what yer sayin' chicken.

messy tessy

No I don't think it was quite 'right'.

Please note I do not wish to receive any more gifts. Apologies if that is a little presumptuous on my part.

Why don't you want any more gifts?! What have you been getting?

me_right_one

danjo-xx wrote: »

Does the word 'presumptuous' here mean, not assuming or expecting to you guys, that is what I'm hoping it does.

Yes, it does. You expressed this correctly

Academic

Brennan Dry Molasses wrote: »

No. It is a partial sentence but the general sense is there.

There's nothing "partial" about it. It's a complete sentence, syntactically well-formed.

It does sound like the speaker/writer might not know what the word "presumptuous" means, however.

cml387

The quotations allow you to be as ungrammatical as you like.
"Ere, gimmee that bun you 'orrible little man" said the sergeant major menacingly.

uch

I think the OP is a Gom, who doesn't want more presents, now seriously, c'mon

bobbyss

koumi wrote:

This sentence does

danjo-xx wrote:

"Without being presumptuous, no more gifts for me please"

I think there are nine words but no verb. A sentence of such length has to have a verb. That may be the reason it's tricky.

peckerhead

Srameen is right; the sentence is ungrammatical, but perfectly intelligible.

The main proposition, "no more gifts for me please" is not a sentence (no verb) but a sentence fragment whose meaning is clear — please don't give me any more gifts. The "please" tag should have a comma in front of it (and a full stop after).

"Without being presumptuous" is a subordinate clause and the proposition which it necessarily implies here — "I wish you to know that I don't want any more gifts" — is implicit in the elliptical formulation proffered.

As often happens in spoken discourse.

Because we don't speak in sentences, a lot of the time.

See?

MyStubbleItches

bobbyss wrote: »

I think there are nine words but no verb. A sentence of such length has to have a verb. That may be the reason it's tricky.

'Being' is a verb.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

MyStubbleItches wrote: »

'Being' is a verb.

But, it's not in the main proposition.

gifted

Never mind the sentence....does this thread make sense anymore???

MyStubbleItches

Brennan Dry Molasses wrote: »

But, it's not in the main proposition.

The word 'but' does not require a comma here. In any case, I was replying to another post which made reference to nine words.

cdeb

Brennan Dry Molasses wrote: »

A semicolon instead of a comma would help greatly.

A semi-colon has no place in that sentence; a comma is correct.

A semi-colon has no place in that sentence, as these two sentences can hopefully demonstrate.

The OP's two clauses are too closely related for a semi-colon.

MyStubbleItches

gifted wrote: »

Never mind the sentence....does this thread make sense anymore???

I'd argue that there should be more threads like this one on AH. We might all learn something. We definitely don't learn anything useful from the vast majority of dim-witted threads here.

osarusan

It makes sense. Posters on here were able to understand it.

Whether it's grammatically perfect or not is a different issue.

Irish Guitarist

Someone has bought you presents and you don't want them spending any more money on you but you don't want to sound like you presume they were going to.

If you're writing a novel or something maybe you could phrase it better. If you're just messaging someone on the internet it's fine.

If you do get more presents you don't want you can send them to me.

danjo-xx

Thanks for all the replies guys, well nearly all of them:D

I was mainly interested if my interpretation and use of the word presumptuous in this case was correct.

The text message I plan on sending would be something like this'

Hi Mary,
Without being presumptuous, no more Christmas gifts for me please. Thanking you for all your kind gifts in the past.

Only a text but I would like it to be gramatically correct though.

Just want to 'very politely and in an inoffensive way' if that's possible, end these totally disingenuous gift vouchers.:)

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

danjo-xx wrote: »

Thanks for all the replies guys, well nearly all of them:D

I was mainly interested if my interpretation and use of the word presumptuous in this case was correct.

The text message I plan on sending would be something like this'




Only a text but I would like it to be gramatically correct though.

Just want to 'very politely and in an inoffensive way' if that's possible, end these totally disingenuous gift vouchers.:)

Do you mean disingenuous as in not sincere and hypocritical?

danjo-xx

Brennan Dry Molasses wrote: »

Do you mean disingenuous as in not sincere and hypocritical?

absoutely

CollyFlower

Just use text speak...

Hi Mary, w/o being presumptuous, n more xmas gifts for me pls. Thanking u for all ur kind gifts in d past.

KungPao

No more apples in the vending machine please!!