Can you see this sentence are grammatically correct?
1. Perhaps only because our own lives, so much easier in many ways, are also so constrained by the imperative to work, we have to wonder why.
I learned at the beginning of the sentence, if "only" is used with an adverb (or an adverb phrase), then a subject and a verb are bound to be inverted, aren't they?
2. Men and women were crossing the floor, talking, watching, dancing, standing, spread out across the vast room.
Even though in front of "spread", "being" is omitted, why don't we need "and"?
3. Mike took his place with the other contestants and was as joyful as a child on Christmas morning at.
What does "at" mean???
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1. This sentence does not work for me. : Perhaps only because our own lives, so much easier in many ways, are also so constrained by the imperative to work, do we have to wonder why.
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- This sentence does not work for me.
- : Perhaps only because our own lives, so much easier in many ways, are also so constrained by the imperative to work, do we have to wonder why.
- If so, then I guess I agree, but somehow it still does not seem a great sentence.
- It also isn't terribly clear, at least in isolation, what "wonder why" refers to.
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1. This sentence does not work for me. Are you suggesting that it should be this?:
Perhaps only because our own lives, so much easier in many ways, are also so constrained by the imperative to work, do we have to wonder why.
If so, then I guess I agree, but somehow it still does not seem a great sentence. It also isn't terribly clear, at least in isolation, what "wonder why"
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