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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
Grammar
DANGLING MODIFIERS
Hi friends and teachers,
i need one help from you all over dangling modifiers ..
please read those two sentences
1) I gave the football my friend which costs 10 rupee
(here, the relative pronoun ''which'' modifies the noun "football")
2) I put the football on the table which has four legs
(here the noun"table" is modified)
note: " i have been taught that one rule for relative pronoun is that relative pronoun must be in the very next place of the word it modifies ................but in lot many places i have realized this rule is not working....
the core problem here is that one subordinate class will modify one noun,
it will be clear for us to identify the appropriate noun when sub class is placed next to that noun.....
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but it becomes too difficult for us to identify the CORRECT NOUN the sub class modifying, when it is not placed next to that noun it(sub class) modifies..
of course it would not be a problem when we know the complete context of the sentence but we'll be in the track of trouble when we don't have any idea about the the context of the sentence......
ENGLISH IS MY SECOND LANGUAGE..IN MY MOTHER TOUGH THERE IS NOT SUCH PROBLEM...
please help me to solve this problem....i have go through a lot of books to survive my career ...but with this problem its almost impossible to go ahead!!!!!!!!!!!!!
if question is not clear please let me know!!!!
i need one help from you all over dangling modifiers ..
please read those two sentences
1) I gave the football my friend which costs 10 rupee
(here, the relative pronoun ''which'' modifies the noun "football")
2) I put the football on the table which has four legs
(here the noun"table" is modified)
note: " i have been taught that one rule for relative pronoun is that relative pronoun must be in the very next place of the word it modifies ................but in lot many places i have realized this rule is not working....
the core problem here is that one subordinate class will modify one noun,
it will be clear for us to identify the appropriate noun when sub class is placed next to that noun.....
.
.
but it becomes too difficult for us to identify the CORRECT NOUN the sub class modifying, when it is not placed next to that noun it(sub class) modifies..
of course it would not be a problem when we know the complete context of the sentence but we'll be in the track of trouble when we don't have any idea about the the context of the sentence......
ENGLISH IS MY SECOND LANGUAGE..IN MY MOTHER TOUGH THERE IS NOT SUCH PROBLEM...
please help me to solve this problem....i have go through a lot of books to survive my career ...but with this problem its almost impossible to go ahead!!!!!!!!!!!!!
if question is not clear please let me know!!!!
Top answer
I gave the football to my friend which costs 10 rupee s. — Even if a sentence is as poorly composed as this one, it only takes common sense to understand which noun is the reasonable referent for the modifier, and that process is what you must do in every case, anyway, since you cannot rely on the referent always to be immediately followed by its post-modifier. I trust that answers your question.
- I gave the football to my friend which costs 10 rupee s.
- — Even if a sentence is as poorly composed as this one, it only takes common sense to understand which noun is the reasonable referent for the modifier, and that process is what you must do in every case, anyway, since you cannot rely on the referent always to be immediately followed by its post-modifier.
- I trust that answers your question.
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I gave the football to my friend which costs 10 rupees.— Even if a sentence is as poorly composed as this one, it only takes common sense to understand which noun is the reasonable referent for the modifier, and that process is what you must do in every case, anyway, since you cannot rely on the referent always to be immediately followed by its post-modifier.
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Anonymousif question is not clear please let me know!!!!There is no question. There are only statements.
Anonymousof course it would not be a problem when we know the complete context of the sentence but we'll be in the track of trouble when we don't have any idea about the the context of the sentence......You have your o
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