Renaissance Girl

I'm correcting the editing exams for Writing Center hiring this morning; one section is to choose correct pronoun case.

Question 22: Martha told (he and I/him and me) to do the work.
My favorite answer so far: Martha told us to do the work.

Way to get around the question! I like this one.

....so. I'm applying to be a writing consultant, right? And this involves, among other things, editing papers. Ok, I can do that. I like doing that, making little marks on paper and weird marginal comments and telling people that their grammar is terrible. But...well. Are we supposed to be nice about it? Because, really...the paper I'm editing for my application--is this supposed to be an average college-level paper? Because it's terrible. Maybe (ok, probably) I'm an effete linguistic and grammar snob, BUT. Please. I was writing papers better than this in seventh grade. How am I supposed to say "your paper sucks, can I just rewrite it for you?" nicely? Bah.


...ohgawd. I really AM an effete grammar snob, aren't I? I'm doomed. *hides*