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Dakota Fanning Needs to Brush up on Her Grammar

Dakota Fanning, age 12, gave Time magazine the following quote for this week’s issue: “I would love to direct someday. I’ve learned a lot from watching directors I’ve worked with [sic], like Steven Spielberg and Gary Winick, whom I worked with [sic] on Charlotte’s Web. I would love to have that relationship with another actor.”

Oh, sweet Dakota, age 12. While I always appreciate the correct objective use of a relative pronoun, you used a terminal preposition in the first clause of that sentence, and misplaced another in the second. Your sentence, if you were really that smart, should read like this:

“I’ve learned a lot from watching directors with whom I’ve worked, like Steven Spielberg and Gary Winnick, with whom I worked on Charlotte’s Web. Mommy, can I have my childhood back?”

Seriously, Dakota, if you want to be a director, you should really learn how to write an English sentence first. Don’t they even bother to homeschool you? Sheesh.

Charlotte’s Web opens next month, and Fanning’s independent film, Hound Dog, will be screened at Sundance in January.

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  • “Ending a sentence with a preposition is a practice up with which I will not put.” Winston Spencer Churchill. An man who could turn a fine phrase, terminal pronouns (and grammarians manque) be damned.

  • well……., this simply looks like someone picking up a not-so-good-enough reason to nit-pick her

    and c’mon she’s just a kid

  • I’m not surprised since anyone can have a website bashing celebrities and we all know it’s legal to not have class as well… But if you’re going to make a statement about someone not being able to compose a correct english sentence then maybe you should try to make yours correct? You used the same phrase twice in the same sentence… Right after the first. DUMB ASS.
    “I’ve learned a lot from watching directors WITH WHOME I’VE WORKED, like Steven Spielberg and Gary Winnick, WITH WHOM I WORKED on Charlotte’s Web. Mommy, can I have my childhood back?”
    I’m betting it’s worse that you can’t seem to not look like an idiot while criticizing someone else especially when it’s taken into consideration how much older than Dakota Fanning you obviously are. Sadnessssss

  • are you serious? she’s 12. she talks a hell of a lot more articulately than most 12 year olds i know. i have 2 college degrees and i would probs have said that sentence the same way.