Friday, February 2, 2018

tense - What's the grammar of "Me, Benjamin Clawhauser, ... stereotyping you"?


"Zootopia" around 00:14:04/01:48:32



Benjamin Clawhauser: O.M. Goodness... They really did hire a bunny. [Laughs] What!? I gotta tell you, you are even cuter than I thought you'd be!


Judy Hopps: Ooh, uh, you probably didn't know, but a bunny can call another bunny cute, but when other animals do it, it's a little...


Benjamin Clawhauser: [Gasps] I am so sorry! Me, Benjamin Clawhauser, the guy everyone thinks is just a flabby, donut-loving cop stereotyping you, oh...




(http://zootopia.wikia.com/wiki/Zootopia/Transcript)


1 Why is the subject "me" instead of "I"?


2 Is the sentence in the past continuous tense? "Me was stereotyping you"? Why is "was" missing?




relative: Why did Hopps the bunny use "didn't" when talking the present moment? Was it a kind of mood?



Answer



It's a sort of conversational deletion. The fuller version would be something like



Imagine me stereotyping you




or



Here we see me stereotyping you



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