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The sentence should have been, "This is an excellent example of how the biological process of digestion was influenced by a cultural idea."
However, the sentence happened to be "This is an excellent example of how influenced the biological process of digestion was by a cultural idea." Does this sentence still make sense? Is this grammatically correct?
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"Influenced" makes a poor adjective here, and its position makes the sentence a bit of a puzzle, but the sentence is sound enough grammatically if you take grammar to be only a prescribed set of rules for stringing words together and not the complete explanation of the language as it exists that it should be. " But even that is illogical. A single isolated occurrence (the biological process of digestion was influenced by a cultural idea) cannot be an example of itself.
- "Influenced" makes a poor adjective here, and its position makes the sentence a bit of a puzzle, but the sentence is sound enough grammatically if you take grammar to be only a prescribed set of rules for stringing words together and not the complete explanation of the language as it exists that it should be.
- " But even that is illogical.
- A single isolated occurrence (the biological process of digestion was influenced by a cultural idea) cannot be an example of itself.
- " I always take such writing mistakes to be indicative of baloney; the writer himself didn't even know what he was trying to say.
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"Influenced" makes a poor adjective here, and its position makes the sentence a bit of a puzzle, but the sentence is sound enough grammatically if you take grammar to be only a prescribed set of rules for stringing words together and not the complete explanation of the language as it exists that it should be. Better would be: "This is an excellent example of the extent to which the biological
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