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Hoony Posted 6 years ago
Grammar

Grammar check


"the hole their peers did"

Q1. What do 'did' mean?

Q2. Can we guess that 'did' replace 'dropped the ball into' ?

Q3. Is a objective relative pronoun omitted between 'the hole' and 'their peers' ?

ex) the hole (that/which) their peers did (??)

Q4. What about relative adverb?

ex) the hole (where) their peers did (??)

  

Top answer

"the hole their peers did" is understood to mean "the hole (that) their peers dropped the ball into" (or "the hole into which their peers dropped the ball"). Strictly speaking, in my opinion, it is not a logically correct use of "did". However, we are unlikely to notice this in normal reading.

— GPY

  • "the hole their peers did" is understood to mean "the hole (that) their peers dropped the ball into" (or "the hole into which their peers dropped the ball").
  • Strictly speaking, in my opinion, it is not a logically correct use of "did".
  • However, we are unlikely to notice this in normal reading.
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"the hole their peers did" is understood to mean "the hole (that) their peers dropped the ball into" (or "the hole into which their peers dropped the ball"). Strictly speaking, in my opinion, it is not a logically correct use of "did". However, we are unlikely to notice this in normal reading.

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. . . only human children were likely to switch by dropping the ball into the hole their peers did.


Q1. What do 'did' mean? A fuller version of the sentence is

. . . only human children were likely to switch by dropping the ball into the hole their peers dropped the ball into.

Q2. Can we guess that 'did' replace 'dropped the

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HoonyQ2. Can we guess that 'did' replace 'dropped the ball into' ?

I see it a bit differently. The full sentence would be "The results clearly showed that only human children were likely to switch by dropping the ball into the hole their peers did drop the ball into." We truncate rather than make the tedious repetition—not consciously, of course. This has b

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