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MrGuedes Posted 11 years ago
Grammar
Coordinate relative clauses: errors?
Hello, guys!
I have two questions related to strange things I have read in my English book about relative clauses.
1) When the book explains what coordinate relative clauses are, it gives this example: "The campaign wasn't successful which was very disappointing for everyone." Shouldn't there be a comma before "which"? It sounds like this sentence requires a pause on that spot, and I believe I have always seen this sort of sentence with a comma before "which". Am I right?
2) On one exercise, I am required to correct the mistake(s) in each sentence. However, I can't find any mistake in the following one: "I didn't understand why, which made me give up." Why isn't this sentence right? It makes sense to me: "the fact that I didn't understand why" made me give up. What is wrong here?
Thank you in advance for any answer!
I have two questions related to strange things I have read in my English book about relative clauses.
1) When the book explains what coordinate relative clauses are, it gives this example: "The campaign wasn't successful which was very disappointing for everyone." Shouldn't there be a comma before "which"? It sounds like this sentence requires a pause on that spot, and I believe I have always seen this sort of sentence with a comma before "which". Am I right?
2) On one exercise, I am required to correct the mistake(s) in each sentence. However, I can't find any mistake in the following one: "I didn't understand why, which made me give up." Why isn't this sentence right? It makes sense to me: "the fact that I didn't understand why" made me give up. What is wrong here?
Thank you in advance for any answer!
Top answer
" Shouldn't there be a comma before "which"? " Why isn't this sentence right? It is right.
- " Shouldn't there be a comma before "which"?
- " Why isn't this sentence right?
- It is right.
- Throw your book away.
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MrGuedes"The campaign wasn't successful which was very disappointing for everyone." Shouldn't there be a comma before "which"?Yes
MrGuedes"I didn't understand why, which made me give up." Why isn't this sentence right?It is right.
Throw your book away.
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fivejedjonThrow your book away.I would, but it is my school book. I can't.
I shall see what the teacher will say tomorrow about this exercise. I'm curious.
Well, thank you so much!
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I've just found this post, all these years after, and I completely agree with the suggestion of throwing the book away ??. I can't tell if the coursebook is the same, but the one we've been using for 11th grade EFL has exactly the same exercises, and it's full of this kind of mistakes! As a teacher, I try to make sure the students aren't mislead, but sometimes it's very frustrating! Shame on t
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