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Stenka25 Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary
A relative pronoun problem
a relative pronoun problem
The passage below is from the website as follows:
http://english-ed.com/my-clothes/
Every time something goes out of fashion and something new comes in, it is time to get out the credit cards and cheque book. The individuality we think we are expressing through our choice of clothes, music and entertainment is in reality a way of conforming to the fashions which are dictated to us by the small group of people who control the media and manufacturing companies. Being fashionable means getting poorer while they become rich.
In this passage I'm not sure what the underlined 'who' stands for.
It seems to refer to 'the small group' in a sense, but it also seems to be able to represent 'people.'
Can you help me out?
(I also want to ask whether my question is a bit fastidious in your native speaker's sense of English or it can be a genuine one to find the exact word post-modified by WHO.)
Regards.
The passage below is from the website as follows:
http://english-ed.com/my-clothes/
Every time something goes out of fashion and something new comes in, it is time to get out the credit cards and cheque book. The individuality we think we are expressing through our choice of clothes, music and entertainment is in reality a way of conforming to the fashions which are dictated to us by the small group of people who control the media and manufacturing companies. Being fashionable means getting poorer while they become rich.
In this passage I'm not sure what the underlined 'who' stands for.
It seems to refer to 'the small group' in a sense, but it also seems to be able to represent 'people.'
Can you help me out?
(I also want to ask whether my question is a bit fastidious in your native speaker's sense of English or it can be a genuine one to find the exact word post-modified by WHO.)
Regards.
Top answer
) I think it is a point that few speakers would ever question or think to ask about. Even so, it is a perfectly valid question to raise.
- ) I think it is a point that few speakers would ever question or think to ask about.
- Even so, it is a perfectly valid question to raise.
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I read it as "[small group of people] who control" not "small group of [people who control]
Stenka25(I also want to ask whether my question is a bit fastidious in your native speaker's sense of English or it can be a genuine one to find the exact word post-modified by WHO.)I think it is a point that few speakers would ever question or think to ask about.
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Thanks a lot for your answer, GPY.
And thanks a million for your sincere reply for my concern about the relevance of my question.
And thanks a million for your sincere reply for my concern about the relevance of my question.
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