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Blackcheetah Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

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0Bangladesh police have detained or arrested more than 18,000 people in the last 11 days in a crackdown on crime they say is aimed at improving security ahead of December elections.02br
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00I think this sentence should be:02br
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00Bangladesh police have detained or arrested more than 18,000 people in the last 11 days in a crackdown on crime 01font00which02font00 they say is aimed at improving security ahead of December elections.02br
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0 I think that because of the length of the sentence, 'which' or 'that' is called for. 02br 02br 00 This might be a case, however, of "too much sentence". ".

— Philip

  • 0 I think that because of the length of the sentence, 'which' or 'that' is called for.
  • 02br 02br 00 This might be a case, however, of "too much sentence".
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  • The antecedent of 'that/which' actually is the entire beginning clause; with the longer sentence, "crime" appears to be the antecedent because of its proximity to the relative pronoun.
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0 I think that because of the length of the sentence, 'which' or 'that' is called for. 02br
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00 This might be a case, however, of "too much sentence". It might be better to stop after "crackdown on crime" and begin a new sentence such as "this action is aimed at.....". The antecedent of 'that/which' actually is the entire beginning clause; with the longer sentence, "cri
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