English Language & Usage Asked by JackBixuis on September 18, 2020
Last night my cousin was playing Britney Spears’ "Oops I did it again" song, and then in the middle of the song I felt the need to use the rest room and then I wanted to tell him "I better hit the toilet before I oops do it again" but when I was going about doing my business in the restroom, I was thinking "did I use the proper English?"
What should I have said there for it to be proper English? I mean usually it might have conveyed the meaning and it would have been understood and funny a bit, but I am looking for grammatically correct English here.
Thank you.
And sorry if this question and its context might seem a bit disrespectful or disturbing to some folks.
Oops! or whoops! is just an exclamation you make when you fall or knock something over, or to acknowledge that you have made a mistake. So putting it in the middle of a sentence as you did doesn't really work, but of course your cousin would understand that you were imitating the words of the song. You could have said
... before - oops! - I do it again.
Correct answer by Kate Bunting on September 18, 2020
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