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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
Gerund phrases/clauses and participial phrases/clauses at start of sentence
Here are two sentences, each of which communicates the same idea:
1. Exercising the barest minimum of intellectual curiosity in the wake of news reports would give one enough information to know that such a blanket statement is inaccurate.
2. Exercising the barest minimum of intellectual curiosity in the wake of news reports, one would obtain enough information to know that such a blanket claim is inaccurate.
Question:
Is one of those sentences more or less grammatically correct than the other? It's my belief that the first sentence uses a subordinate gerund clause; thus it's correctly punctuated and grammatically correct. I believe too the second sentence is correctly punctuated and grammatically correct, for it begins a present participial clause. Both sentences are intended to carry the implications implicit in the subjunctive mode.
1. Exercising the barest minimum of intellectual curiosity in the wake of news reports would give one enough information to know that such a blanket statement is inaccurate.
2. Exercising the barest minimum of intellectual curiosity in the wake of news reports, one would obtain enough information to know that such a blanket claim is inaccurate.
Question:
Is one of those sentences more or less grammatically correct than the other? It's my belief that the first sentence uses a subordinate gerund clause; thus it's correctly punctuated and grammatically correct. I believe too the second sentence is correctly punctuated and grammatically correct, for it begins a present participial clause. Both sentences are intended to carry the implications implicit in the subjunctive mode.
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Anonymous Is one of those sentences more or less grammatically correct than the other? No. They are both grammatical; therefore, they are equally grammatical.
- Anonymous Is one of those sentences more or less grammatically correct than the other?
- No.
- They are both grammatical; therefore, they are equally grammatical.
- Anonymous subjunctive mode There is nothing subjunctive in either sentence.
- "would" is never the sign of subjunctive mood, if that is what you're thinking.
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AnonymousIs one of those sentences more or less grammatically correct than the other?No. They are both grammatical; therefore, they are equally grammatical.
Anonymoussubjunctive modeThere is nothing subjunctive in either sentence. "would" is never the sign of subjunctive mood, if that is what you're thinking.
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