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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
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A Native Speaker with a Question
Hello,
I'm a native English speaker and was recently told that the following sentence is incorrect:
"One of the advantages of living in the city is beautiful scenery."
And that to be correct it should be written as follows:
"One of the advantages to living in the city is its beautiful scenery."
Personally, I feel like the first one is actually correct besides the slightly ackward us of "of" instead of "to."
The second seems wrong to me because its refers to a noun which is contained in a prepositional phrase. As far as I know, you can't use a preposition to reference a noun contained in a prepositional phrase.
To me the most correct answer would be as follows:
"One of the advantages to living in the city is beautiful scenery."
Please advise,
Thanks.
Mark
One of the advantages of living in the city is beautiful scenery.
One of the advantages to living in the city is its beautiful scenery.
I'm a native English speaker and was recently told that the following sentence is incorrect:
"One of the advantages of living in the city is beautiful scenery."
And that to be correct it should be written as follows:
"One of the advantages to living in the city is its beautiful scenery."
Personally, I feel like the first one is actually correct besides the slightly ackward us of "of" instead of "to."
The second seems wrong to me because its refers to a noun which is contained in a prepositional phrase. As far as I know, you can't use a preposition to reference a noun contained in a prepositional phrase.
To me the most correct answer would be as follows:
"One of the advantages to living in the city is beautiful scenery."
Please advise,
Thanks.
Mark
One of the advantages of living in the city is beautiful scenery.
One of the advantages to living in the city is its beautiful scenery.
Top answer
" The two prepositions are both common and natural. Though I take your logic about referring to nouns within a prepositional phrase, the use of 'its' in #2 remains the clearer and more usual utterance. ): My source of my love for my father is his unflagging concern .
- " The two prepositions are both common and natural.
- Though I take your logic about referring to nouns within a prepositional phrase, the use of 'its' in #2 remains the clearer and more usual utterance.
- ): My source of my love for my father is his unflagging concern .
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"One of the advantages of living in the city is beautiful scenery."
"One of the advantages to living in the city is its beautiful scenery."
The two prepositions are both common and natural. Though I take your logic about referring to nouns within a prepositional phrase, the use of 'its' in #2 remains the clearer and more usual utterance. Compare (prep phrase wit
"One of the advantages to living in the city is its beautiful scenery."
The two prepositions are both common and natural. Though I take your logic about referring to nouns within a prepositional phrase, the use of 'its' in #2 remains the clearer and more usual utterance. Compare (prep phrase wit
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