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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
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How can I understand this "for which"?
How can I understand this "for which"?
This is an excerpt from my book:
"Secondly, we may not be able to account always for the choice of one rather than another linguistic form; we sometimes find DIVIED USAGE, a choice between variants, the conditions for which cannot be attributed to the variety distinctions discussed in this chapter."
I can't understand how to treat the words around "the conditions for which cannot be attributed" grammatically.
I mean "what is the subject of 'cannot'" and "what is the antecedent of 'which'."
Could you tell me, please?
This is an excerpt from my book:
"Secondly, we may not be able to account always for the choice of one rather than another linguistic form; we sometimes find DIVIED USAGE, a choice between variants, the conditions for which cannot be attributed to the variety distinctions discussed in this chapter."
I can't understand how to treat the words around "the conditions for which cannot be attributed" grammatically.
I mean "what is the subject of 'cannot'" and "what is the antecedent of 'which'."
Could you tell me, please?
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... the conditions [ for (the choice between variants) ] cannot be attributed to the variety distinctions discussed in this chapter."
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Anonymous"Secondly, we may not be able to account always for the choice of one rather than another linguistic form; we sometimes find DIVIED USAGE, a choice between variants, the conditions for which cannot be attributed to the variety distinctions discussed in this chapter."In my opinion, "for" is redundant here. "be attributed to" is the verb phrase which i
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