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English 1b3 Posted 15 years ago
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Complex sentence...We had this team building excercise
We had this team building exercise where we were split into groups of eight, each allocated a product to advertise and a theme on which to base the advertisment.
We had this team building exercise where we were split into groups of eight, each of which was allocated a product to advertise and a theme on which to base the advertisment.
We had this team building exercise where we were split into groups of eight, with each group allocated a product to advertise and a theme on which to base the advertisment.
Do you accept all of these? If not why?
We had this team building exercise where we were split into groups of eight, each of which was allocated a product to advertise and a theme on which to base the advertisment.
We had this team building exercise where we were split into groups of eight, with each group allocated a product to advertise and a theme on which to base the advertisment.
Do you accept all of these? If not why?
Top answer
It's advertis e ment. English 1b3 We had this team building exercise where we were split into groups of eight, each allocated a product to advertise and a theme on which to base the advertisment. The sentence above is the only one I don't particularly like.
- It's advertis e ment.
- English 1b3 We had this team building exercise where we were split into groups of eight, each allocated a product to advertise and a theme on which to base the advertisment.
- The sentence above is the only one I don't particularly like.
- Whoever reads it is misled to think that each is the grammatical subject of the past tense verb allocated until he realises that this is a passive structure and allocated is in fact a past participle.
- Confusion like this stems from the scarcity of inflections in English.
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It's advertisement.
English 1b3We had this team building exercise where we were split into groups of eight, each allocated a product to advertise and a theme on which to base the advertisment.The sentence above is the only one I don't particularly like. Whoever reads it is misled to think that each is the grammatical subject of the past
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