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Pokh Posted 15 years ago
Grammar
Legal Nouns
Wisconsin, Illinois, Florida, and Minnesota have begun to enforce statewide bans prohibiting landfills from accepting leaves, brush, and grass clippings.
1.Is sentence above properly constructed... I guess only the animate object can be prohibited from doing something.. How can one prohibit Landfills?
2. Is a legal noun( law , ban , order, decree, contract , bill, Deed etc.) used in objective case always be followed by -ing?e.g. ETS enacted a ban prohibiting takers from posting live questions. "
1.Is sentence above properly constructed... I guess only the animate object can be prohibited from doing something.. How can one prohibit Landfills?
2. Is a legal noun( law , ban , order, decree, contract , bill, Deed etc.) used in objective case always be followed by -ing?e.g. ETS enacted a ban prohibiting takers from posting live questions. "
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Think about this for a moment. It's neither the state that creates a ban, nor the inanimate object that can't accept the yard waste. You didn't stumble over a state creating a ban.
- Think about this for a moment.
- It's neither the state that creates a ban, nor the inanimate object that can't accept the yard waste.
- You didn't stumble over a state creating a ban.
- Can you make the same connection for the landfill?
- {The people who run the states of} Wisconsin, Illinois, Florida, and Minnesota have begun to enforce statewide bans prohibiting [the people who operate the} landfills from accepting leaves...
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Think about this for a moment. It's neither the state that creates a ban, nor the inanimate object that can't accept the yard waste. You didn't stumble over a state creating a ban. Can you make the same connection for the landfill?
{The people who run the states of} Wisconsin, Illinois, Florida, and Minnesota have begun to enforce statewide bans prohibiting [the people who o
{The people who run the states of} Wisconsin, Illinois, Florida, and Minnesota have begun to enforce statewide bans prohibiting [the people who o
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Grammar GeekThink about this for a moment. It's neither the state that creates a ban, nor the inanimate object that can't accept the yard waste. You didn't stumble over a state creating a ban. Can you make the same connection for the landfill?
{The people who run the states of} Wisconsin, Illinois, Florida, and Minnesota have begun to enforce statewide bans prohi
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