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Park sang joon Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

An ungrammatical sentence

Killed by an obsessed fan, Selena was known as the queen of Tejano music, and her untimely death drew the public's attention to the songs she made famous.
[Source: Reading for Results Ninth Edition by Laraine Flemming]
I'd like to know if it is right that "for which" after "the songs" is missing.
Thank you in advance for your help.
  

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park sang joon An ungrammatical sentence I really wonder how you find so many 'grammatical mistakes' in published works. park sang joon I'd like to know if it is right that "for which" after "the songs" is missing. No, that would not make semantic sense.

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  • park sang joon An ungrammatical sentence I really wonder how you find so many 'grammatical mistakes' in published works.
  • park sang joon I'd like to know if it is right that "for which" after "the songs" is missing.
  • No, that would not make semantic sense.
  • her untimely death drew the public's attention to the songs [that] she made famous.
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park sang joon An ungrammatical sentence
I really wonder how you find so many 'grammatical mistakes' in published works.
park sang joonI'd like to know if it is right that "for which" after "the songs" is missing.
No, that would not make semantic sense. It is merely an elided conjunction:

...her untimely death d
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I'm so sorry for my belated question.
I was wondering if it is right that you meant an objective relative pronoun by "an elided conjunction"
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park sang joonI was wondering if it is right that you meant an objective relative pronoun by "an elided conjunction"
I meant what I said. You can decide what else you want to call 'that'.
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