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Mr-Taciturn Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

A relative reduction

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01u01i00The members who attended the seminar last month will be rewarded02i02u00 02br
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00Which one best meets the meaning of the sentence underlined? If both are wrong ,what's your suggestion?02br
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02font 02br 02br 01font 00Which one best meets the meaning of the sentence underlined? 02br 02br 00Of your 2 choices, 'having attended' seems more grammatical to me, but it still seems clumsy. 02br 02br 00Best wishes, Clive0-

— Clive

  • 02font 02br 02br 01font 00Which one best meets the meaning of the sentence underlined?
  • 02br 02br 00Of your 2 choices, 'having attended' seems more grammatical to me, but it still seems clumsy.
  • 02br 02br 00Best wishes, Clive0-
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0Hi,02br
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01font01u01i00The members who attended the seminar last month will be rewarded02i02u00 02font02br
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0 I would leave the sentence as is. There's no need to use either participial construction, and neither means exactly the same as the relative clause of the original.02br
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00 To me, the 01i00having attended02i00 version suggests that members will be rewarded 01u00because02u00 they attended the seminar. In the original the
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