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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
Failing which
Example: You must attend this meeting, failing which you will be disqualified.
Is 'failing which' used correctly in the above?
Is 'failing which' used correctly in the above?
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Sorry to intrude, but you all know how much I like my relative clauses. 
Could you please tell me the difference in meaning
Could you please tell me the difference in meaning
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'The failing of which' is not only too awkward to live, but it also mis-references to 'meeting; however, it is not the meeting which would fail, but the attendance.
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'failing which you will be disqualified.
'which' is an objective case, relative pronoun, and is the object of failing.
If we rearrange the sentence, it doesn't make sense:
you will be disqualified failing which.
Is there an ellipsis here to explain this?
'if you fail which'
'which' is an objective case, relative pronoun, and is the object of failing.
If we rearrange the sentence, it doesn't make sense:
you will be disqualified failing which.
Is there an ellipsis here to explain this?
'if you fail which'
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