Can you paraphrase this sentence for me, please?
Hi, there.
Happy New Year!
This is an excerpt from my book:
"Since the dilemma is not clearly resolvable by the principles of grammatical concord of notional concord, recourse is generally had to the principle of proximity: whichever phrase comes last determines the number of the verb, as in [4] and [5]."
Could you paraphrase after "recourse", please?
I can't figure out how to understand "generally had to."
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"to have recourse to X" means to utilitise X in order to achieve a desired result or solve some difficulty. "recourse is generally had to X" is the passive form of this. , it is saying that we, or people generally, have recourse to, or utilise, the principle of proximity.
- "to have recourse to X" means to utilitise X in order to achieve a desired result or solve some difficulty.
- "recourse is generally had to X" is the passive form of this.
- , it is saying that we, or people generally, have recourse to, or utilise, the principle of proximity.
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"to have recourse to X" means to utilitise X in order to achieve a desired result or solve some difficulty. "recourse is generally had to X" is the passive form of this. I.e., it is saying that we, or people generally, have recourse to, or utilise, the principle of proximity.
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