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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Is this sentence strange?
I'm Japanese and my friend is teaching English at a high school
and his student wrote a sentence as below.
"A is a city where the B river is beautiful."
A. This sentence is grammatically correct and natural.
B. This sentence is grammatically correct but sounds awkward.
(If so, can you explain why it sounds awkward?)
C. This sentence has some grammatical errors.
and his student wrote a sentence as below.
"A is a city where the B river is beautiful."
A. This sentence is grammatically correct and natural.
B. This sentence is grammatically correct but sounds awkward.
(If so, can you explain why it sounds awkward?)
C. This sentence has some grammatical errors.
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B. The meaning seems a little odd. It seems that there are several cities along the river, but the river is ugly at the other cities.
- B.
- The meaning seems a little odd.
- It seems that there are several cities along the river, but the river is ugly at the other cities.
- I cannot grasp what is really meant.
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B. The meaning seems a little odd. It seems that there are several cities along the river, but the river is ugly at the other cities. I cannot grasp what is really meant.
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AnonymousA is a city where the B river is beautiful.It's weird. It's as if the subject of the sentence is B, but for some reason the writer has made A the subject. It should be more like this:
The B River is (particularly) beautiful where it passes through A.
I suppose this is partially because rivers are bigger than cities.
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Anonymous"A is a city where the B river is beautiful."Possibly something like this is meant: "The city of A lies on a beautiful stretch of the river B".
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