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HUBLOT Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Live in without a car

Several factors make a city easy to live in without a car.
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Without without a car, both Several factors make a city easy to live in and Several factors make a city easy to live would be correct, wouldn't they? Even with it, are both correct?
  

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Nope. You need the "in".

— CSnyder

  • Nope.
  • You need the "in".
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Nope. You need the "in".
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Thank you, CSnyder.

Here is another example:

Cleveland Park has many restaurants, shops, the Uptown theatre and the National Zoo. Cleveland Park offers a variety of architectuaral styles. There is easy access to Rock Creek park for walking, running, biking and roller blading. Some of the buildings in this area were once "apartment hotels" where peo
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"...an easy place to live without a car..." is fine. So is "...an easy place to live in without a car...".

However,

"Several factors make a city easy to live" is not correct.

I can't tell you exactly why. Maybe there's some grammar rule that will tell you why the one construction is correct and the other is not, but I suspect it's idiomatic. It's possible that i
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Thank you, CSnyder, but I don't really understand "Several factors make a city easy to live" doesn't make sense because it doesn't have an implied subject.
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