A postponement
A postponement might have to be requested from them.
Is the sentence above ambiguous? Is it "them" who have to request for the postponement or is it "them" who decide to postpone something [whatever it is]?
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The given sentence is awkward. The sequence "a postponement might have to be" is doubly indefinite and would not used in English. " Usually you'd say something like the following: I might request that the wedding be postponed.
- The given sentence is awkward.
- The sequence "a postponement might have to be" is doubly indefinite and would not used in English.
- " Usually you'd say something like the following: I might request that the wedding be postponed.
- I may ask them to postpone the wedding.
- I might request that they postpone the wedding.
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The given sentence is awkward. The sequence "a postponement might have to be" is doubly indefinite and would not used in English. A postponement is either a definite act or something that may happen, but not something that may have to be done." Usually you'd say something like the following:
I might request that the wedding be postponed.
I may ask them to postpone the weddi
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