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Hi MrPThank you for the quickest reply. I see. Thank you a lot.
paco
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Hello guysI'm still stuck to reading Washington Post's article "A Passage to Harvard", a story about a Harvard girl student who committed plagiarism in writing her teen-literature. This question is originally given to me by a Japanese learner of English, who is trying to read the article. The...
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Thanks for the confirmation, Barb. I feel I now got the reason that you preferably use "which is where" in speech.paco
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Grammar Geek wrote:The "which is where" makes the entire U.S. the location of the debate and keeps the comment parenthetical. If it were "in the U.S. where this debate is taking place" (without a comma before "where") it could be seen as restrictive, specifying that there is some location in...
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Hello guysThank you for the replies. I picked up this sentence from CNN.com online where two Congressmen are talking about the issue of human cloning. The sentence is actually spoken by Mr Dennis Kucinich from Cleveland. KUCINICH wrote:Well, you have other nations that, such as France and...
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Hello guysI'm sorry I am always an asker, but could you help me? What I would like to know is the difference in the usage and the meaning between the simple "where" and "which is where".(EX) The truth of the matter is that in the United States, which is where this debate really is about, nine...
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MrPedantic wrote:
Well, it does seem to be a fairly common trick, in some kinds of journalism: putting your relative pronoun in one paragraph, and its referent in another.
MrPThank you, again! I see. paco
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MrPedantic wrote:I would read "Life" as a restatement of the preceding "life", and "that" as a defining relative pronoun:
"...weeping inconsolably and trying to look at life ahead – life that is more engaging, more nuanced and ultimately more disturbing than art, in this case."Hello MrPThank...
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Marius Hancu wrote:Life which is more engaging, more nuanced, etcHi, MariusThanks for the quick reply. Do you mean this sentence is made up of only a single noun modified by a clause?paco
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Hello guysI'm in trouble with a sentence in Washington Post's article "A Passage to Harvard".The sentence is :"Life that is, in this case, more engaging, more nuanced and ultimately more disturbing than art."How should I interpret this "life that is"? Is the "that" a relative? Or should I...
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