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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
Grammar
is this sentence correct?
"The sustenance the healthy thirty-year-old wife proved incapable of providing her
ailing fifty-six-year old husband was more than compensated for by Howie's jovial support"
it's a sentence from 'everyman' by Philip Roth.
Is this sentence grammatically correct?
cuz im confused with the subject.
"the sustenance"? or "the healthy wife"?
ailing fifty-six-year old husband was more than compensated for by Howie's jovial support"
it's a sentence from 'everyman' by Philip Roth.
Is this sentence grammatically correct?
cuz im confused with the subject.
"the sustenance"? or "the healthy wife"?
Top answer
Yes, it is correct. The subject is 'sustenance'. '
- Yes, it is correct.
- The subject is 'sustenance'.
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Yes, it is correct. The subject is 'sustenance'. 'That' is elided: 'the sustenance (that) the healthy...'
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