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Jeff_999 Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

A compound sentence

0 "Only when a system possesses natural or artificial boundaries that associate the water within it 01i00 the hydrologic cycle 02i00 may the entire system properly be termed hydrogeologic." 02br
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00I am trying to split this compound sentence into three simple sentences like these, 02br
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001, A system possesses natural or artificial boundaries. 02br
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002, boundaries associate the water within it (?). 02br
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003, The entire system may properly be termed hydrogeologic. 02br
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00Is that right? 02br
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00If it's, what happened to '01i00 the hydrologic cycle 02i00'? I hope it would be a typo. 02br
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00And what 01i00 it 02i00 in "within it" refers to? 0-
  

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0 Jeff, could you check the transcript? 02br 01blockquote 00the water within it the hydrologic cycle may 12blockquote 12br 02br 00It looks to me as though "it" may not be neccessary here,which might help. 0-

— Abbie1948

  • 0 Jeff, could you check the transcript?
  • 02br 01blockquote 00the water within it the hydrologic cycle may 12blockquote 12br 02br 00It looks to me as though "it" may not be neccessary here,which might help.
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0 Jeff, could you check the transcript? 02br
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00the water within it the hydrologic cycle may 12blockquote
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00It looks to me as though "it" may not be neccessary here,which might help. 0-
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0 You are right abbie1948, the sentence is incorrect. Either "it" has to be omitted or changed to "its"(in this case, the "the" has to be omitted). e.g. 02br
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00"Only when a system possesses natural or artificial boundaries that associate the water within ITS hydrologic cycle may the entire system properly be termed hydrogeologic." 0-
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0 That sounds more likely, and I think it will make it much easier to convert into shorter sentences, and still reatain the info about the hydrological cycle. (not that I know what that is!) 0-
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0 Thanks. I concur with you two. The transcript I got does have some errors. 0-
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