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Taka Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

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0 01span01i00We must cultivate attractive qualities of disposition and behavior if we are to draw out the best which the society of our fellows 01b00has to offer02b00. 02i02br
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00About the part in bold, is it:02br
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00(1)the best+ the society of our fellows has 01b00the best02b00 to offer02br
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00(2)the best+the society of our fellows has to offer 01b00the best02b02br
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01span00I tend to think it's #1, but I'm not sure on this one.02span0-
  

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02br 02br 00I go into a dress shop. "I want to buy the best dress you have for sale. "0-

— Avangi

  • 02br 02br 00I go into a dress shop.
  • "I want to buy the best dress you have for sale.
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0I may be misunderstanding your analysis, but I don't think it's either one.02br
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00I go into a dress shop. "I want to buy the best dress you have for sale. Bring out the best which your store has to offer."0-
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0Well, my question is, is it:02br
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00X+S has X to do→X (which) S has to do02br
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00X+S has to do X→X (which) S has to do02br
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0Excellent comparison.02br
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00The best that our fellowship is able to offer, or will be able to offer, if we all do our best to make it that way.0-
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0 So you think it's the latter: 'X+S has to do X'?02br
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00Hmm...so the society MUST offer the best?? 0-
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0Please forgive me, Taka. Suddenly I'm studying English as a foreign language. I've tried figuring out what your symbols mean, and I've failed.02br
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00I look forward to enjoying the rest of this as a spectator. - A.0-
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01cite10Avangi12cite10Please forgive me, Taka.  Suddenly I'm studying English as a foreign language. I've tried figuring out what your symbols mean, and I've failed.12br
10I look forward to enjoying the rest of this as a spectator.  - A.12br
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10S is the subject of a sentence and X is ju
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0Okay, I get it. You're considering the possibility that "has to" = "must." A big negatory on that! "Has to offer" = "Has for sale." 01b00NOT02b00 "Has to offer" = "Must sell." (They guts to do it!)0-
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0Same idea here except that I wonder the offer of the sentence in original is really about selling something. 0-
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0My opinion may not mean anything.But since I love math, here's my two cents:02br
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00Using Avangi's example:02br
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01i00Bring out the best which your store has to offer02i02br
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00To me, it's equal to "Bring out your store's best" or 02br
00I suppose you can say (though unnatural) "Bring out what you
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1b00"really about selling something."02b02br
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00Of course it's not about selling something. I choose that comparison because it uses the preposition "for," instead of "to" which is also used to form the infinitive of a verb and therefore often leads to ambiguity.02br
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00So this is the best which society01i01u00 is
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