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Awence Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Because and for in a complex sentence

Hildegarde told her little cousin to behave herself because her mother would scold her for she did not take good care of her little cousin girl.

I have a studen who is in a frenzy to churn out quirky sentence like the above. I truly don't encourage the complexity of language before one can master.

Althouigh i think the sentence isnt wrong, i prefer the following edition of the sentence.

Hildegarde told her little cousin to behave herself because her mother would scold HIldegarde for not taking care of her little cousin.
  

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"for she did not take good care" in the first sentence is not right (except in a strained literary sense of "for" that I very much doubt was intended). "for not taking care" in your version is grammatically correct, but doesn't seem to be the best choice to fit the sentence as a whole. "

— Mr Wordy

  • "for she did not take good care" in the first sentence is not right (except in a strained literary sense of "for" that I very much doubt was intended).
  • "for not taking care" in your version is grammatically correct, but doesn't seem to be the best choice to fit the sentence as a whole.
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"for she did not take good care" in the first sentence is not right (except in a strained literary sense of "for" that I very much doubt was intended).

"for not taking care" in your version is grammatically correct, but doesn't seem to be the best choice to fit the sentence as a whole. Assuming (for the sake of addressing the question asked) that we want to keep the rest of the sentence
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