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Pokh Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Ambiguos

Infrared radiation is invisible because its wavelength— 0.1 millimeters—is too long for the eye to register it.

ETS : IT (bolded above) is ambiguous...

Can someone help me understand why IT cannot refer to Infrared radiation?
  

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'It' is actually redundant and would be better omitted. By common sense we recognize that 'it' is the nearer of the nouns; the wavelength is 'it', since an actual measurement ('too long to register') is given in the sentence.

— Mister Micawber

  • 'It' is actually redundant and would be better omitted.
  • By common sense we recognize that 'it' is the nearer of the nouns; the wavelength is 'it', since an actual measurement ('too long to register') is given in the sentence.
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'It' is actually redundant and would be better omitted. By common sense we recognize that 'it' is the nearer of the nouns; the wavelength is 'it', since an actual measurement ('too long to register') is given in the sentence.
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But I guess REGISTER is a transitive verb... So why dont we need object?
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No, here 'register' is intransitive.

register [I or T]

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