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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

hanging from x hangng from y

Is this written correctly?
There was a thread hanging from the ceiling and on the thread there were spoons.

There were spoons hanging from a thread hanging from the ceiling.

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This is natural English?

There were spoons hanging from a thread hanging from the ceiling.
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There were spoons which were hanging from a thread which were hanging from the ceiling.
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AnonymousThere were spoons hanging from a thread hanging from the ceiling.
Okay
AnonymousThere were spoons which were hanging from a thread which were hanging from the ceiling.
. . . . . which was hanging from the ceiling. ("a thread" is singular.)

"Which were" and "which was" are optional.
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How would you personally put it?
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I'd omit "which were" and keep "which was."
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AnonymousThere were spoons hanging from a thread hanging from the ceiling.
These sound better to my ear:

There were spoons hanging on a thread from the ceiling.
There were spoons hanging from the ceiling on a thread.
There were spoons hanging from the ceiling by a thread.

CJ
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CalifJimThese sound better to my ear:
Mine too.

For some strange reason I thought Anon needed to give the impression that the thread had been hanging from the ceiling before some one decided to attach spoons to it.

Crazy.
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