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Seoul1234 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

inversion

Hello Members~!
When I study this sentence, I just got a question if the part "the mental skills it helps us develop" could be inversion clause, although the answer is "because of".

We study philosophy [because/because of] the mental skills it helps us develop.

If you can explain to me, I will very appreiciate it.

Thanks.
  

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These are correct: We study philosophy because of the mental skills it helps us develop. We study philosophy because it helps us develop mental skills. In the first sentence, "the mental skills it helps us develop" is a noun phrase, short for "the mental skills that it helps us develop".

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  • These are correct: We study philosophy because of the mental skills it helps us develop.
  • We study philosophy because it helps us develop mental skills.
  • In the first sentence, "the mental skills it helps us develop" is a noun phrase, short for "the mental skills that it helps us develop".
  • The relative clause "that it helps us develop" modifies "mental skills", giving more information about those mental skills.
  • The structure is similar to "the flowers that my mother likes" or "the picture that the teacher drew".
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These are correct:

We study philosophy because of the mental skills it helps us develop.
We study philosophy because it helps us develop mental skills.

In the first sentence, "the mental skills it helps us develop" is a noun phrase, short for "the mental skills that it helps us develop". The relative clause "that it helps us develop" modifie
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Thank you so much GPY!!^^
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