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Navitasan Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

For meals

1-She sometimes uses canned beans for this dish and other dishes for routine meals at home for her family.
Meaning: She uses canned bean to prepare this dish and other dishes when she prepares routine meals at home for her family.
Can't the first sentence be parsed in two ways?
"For routine meals at home for her family' could be postmodifying 'other dishes'.

It could also be a sentence adverbial:

2-For routine meals at home for her family, she sometimes uses canned beans for this dish and other dishes.
Is that correct?
Gratefully,
Navi.
  

Top answer

navitasan "For routine meals at home for her family' could be postmodifying 'other dishes'. This is one possibility, but I would include "this dish" as well. Thus, the for-clause post-modifies "this dish", and it also post-modifies "other dishes".

— CalifJim

  • navitasan "For routine meals at home for her family' could be postmodifying 'other dishes'.
  • This is one possibility, but I would include "this dish" as well.
  • Thus, the for-clause post-modifies "this dish", and it also post-modifies "other dishes".
  • This would not apply when rephrased with "when", however, in my opinion.
  • With "when" it would go in the category below.
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navitasan"For routine meals at home for her family' could be postmodifying 'other dishes'.
This is one possibility, but I would include "this dish" as well. Thus, the for-clause post-modifies "this dish", and it also post-modifies "other dishes". This would not apply when rephrased with "when", however, in my opinion. With "when" it would go in the category
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Thank you very much California Jim for all your kind replies.

Now that I think about it, it seems to me that no matter who one parses the sentence it unambiguously suggests that 'this dish' is served at 'routine family meals'.
Am I correct?

I can't tell for sure by your reply whether you consider the possibility that 'this dish' is not amongst those served at 'routine meals a
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navitasanNow that I think about it, it seems to me that no matter how one parses the sentence, it unambiguously suggests that 'this dish' is served at 'routine family meals'.
It seems that way to me too.
navitasanI can't tell for sure by your reply whether yo
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Thank you very much California Jim.

And I am sorry about the negative-overload.

Gratefully,
Navi.
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