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Latest post Thu, Jun 8 2006 12:34 AM by Mister Micawber. 4 replies.
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Antonija  +  233404 Wed, 07 Jun 06 01:06 PM

Hi!

Is this sentence grammatically correct? Please check my prepositions, articles and syntax. Thank you.

His longest trip was to Japan when he passed 31, 000 kilometers, and he spent most of the time travelling to China, which took even four and a half months.

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Mister Micawber  +  233413 Wed, 07 Jun 06 01:24 PM

Ugh.


His longest trip was to Japan, where he passed the 31,000-kilometer mark, but he spent most of the time travelling in China, which took eighteen weeks.


Actually, I'm not sure I've reflected your meaning accurately-- you'll have to explain the temporal and geographical relationship of the Japan trip and China trip to me.
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Antonija  +  233444 Wed, 07 Jun 06 02:15 PM

Actually, I have just realised that these two might be unrelated:

His longest trip was to Japan, in terms of kilometers. The longest in terms of the time he spent was to China.

Anonymous, 3 yr 154 days ago

Mister Micawber,

If I change " where " to which/that ", is that possible ?

If not, why ?

Thank you

Mister Micawber  +  233627 Thu, 08 Jun 06 12:34 AM

You could change it to in/during which if you like, but the style suffers-- if travel doesn't imply 'where', then nothing does.

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