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&lt;font color=red&gt;DO NOT post paragraphs and compositions here.  Post them in our &lt;a href="http://www.englishforums.com/English/EssayReportCompositionWriting/Forum9.htm"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Essay, Report and Composition Writing Forum&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/font&gt;</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>XMOD (Build: 3607.32596)</generator><item><title>Re: Relative Clauses</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/RelativeClauses/gwwlv/post.htm#544297</link><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 00:42:16 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:544297</guid><dc:creator>Kanehsu</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/RelativeClauses/gwwlv/post.htm#544297</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-544297.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>Thank you!</description></item><item><title>Re: Relative Clauses</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/RelativeClauses/gwwlv/post.htm#542940</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:42:16 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:542940</guid><dc:creator>26TMNTJG2PG</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/RelativeClauses/gwwlv/post.htm#542940</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-542940.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>Correction: Adjective clauses are to be placed closest to the nouns or pronouns (called antecedents) they modify.</description></item><item><title>Re: Relative Clauses</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/RelativeClauses/gwwlv/post.htm#542938</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 01:42:16 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:542938</guid><dc:creator>26TMNTJG2PG</dc:creator><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/RelativeClauses/gwwlv/post.htm#542938</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-542938.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>&amp;quot;There was one experience from my journey in the Grand Canyon that was memorable.&amp;quot; This sentence has a misplaced modifier if the writer meant that experience was memorable and needs to be rewritten as &amp;quot;There was one experience that was memorable from my journey in the Grand Canyon.&amp;quot; You already know the rule : Adjective clauses are to be placed closest to the nouns (called antecedents) they modify.</description></item><item><title>Relative Clauses</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/RelativeClauses/gwwlv/post.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 01:42:16 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:542933</guid><dc:creator>Kanehsu</dc:creator><slash:comments>3</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/RelativeClauses/gwwlv/post.htm</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-542933.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>Please tell me if this sentence is grammatically correct:  &amp;quot;There was one experience from my journey in the Grand Canyon that was memorable.&amp;quot;  What confuses me about this sentence is that &amp;quot;that was memorable&amp;quot; is an adjective clause. I thought that adjective clauses are supposed to be placed closest to the noun they modify. (So in my opinion, this sentence is saying that the Grand Canyon was memorable, not the experience).  The phrases &amp;quot;from my journey&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;in the Grand Canyon&amp;quot; are prepositional phrases. Is it grammatically correct to have a relative clause refer to a noun that is not right next to it? Is it correct to say that the relative clause can refer to the noun before the prepositional...</description></item></channel></rss>