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Vcolts Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

for

Ex:

He asked questions about fulfilling the scholarship requirement for participating in the experiment.

Q: Could this also mean he asked questions about fulfilling the participation requirement which is a requirement for his scholarship?

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It is not good. "Requirement for" leads the reader astray. "

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It is not good. "Requirement for" leads the reader astray. I think you have to take pains to be clear: "He asked questions about fulfilling the scholarship requirement that he participate in the experiment."
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I agree that it's not good. But purely grammatically (logic wise) speaking, it's not necessarily wrong right?
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I call it wrong. "Requirement for" goes in the wrong direction. Participation in the experiment is a requirement for a scholarship. "Requirement of" is closer to your meaning in your sentence, but that would have been clumsy and unclear. A use is wrong if it fails to convey the intended meaning.
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