0
Navitasan Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
One of the few people
Which are correct:
1-He is one of the few people to be condemned to death in this state for his murder of an elderly man.
2-For his murder of an elderly man, he is one of the few people to be condemned to death in this state.
3-For his murder of an elderly man, he became one of the few people to be condemned to death in this state.
Gratefully,
Navi.
1-He is one of the few people to be condemned to death in this state for his murder of an elderly man.
2-For his murder of an elderly man, he is one of the few people to be condemned to death in this state.
3-For his murder of an elderly man, he became one of the few people to be condemned to death in this state.
Gratefully,
Navi.
Top answer
The first and the third sentences are more correct to me.
- The first and the third sentences are more correct to me.
Get the Weekly English Kit 📬
New words, one handy idiom, and a 2-minute quiz — delivered to your inbox to keep your streak alive.
4 Answers
0
0
Hi navitasan,
With the given context, "condemned" or "sentenced " are both possible, depending on whether you meant to say that it was the jury that "condemned" the man with a guilty verdict, or the state sentenced him to death as a result of the "guilty verdict" by the jury panel. There is a difference. All three sentences do have the words in the grammatical order but not syntactically smo
With the given context, "condemned" or "sentenced " are both possible, depending on whether you meant to say that it was the jury that "condemned" the man with a guilty verdict, or the state sentenced him to death as a result of the "guilty verdict" by the jury panel. There is a difference. All three sentences do have the words in the grammatical order but not syntactically smo
00
When you put "he is one of the few people X", the rest of the sentence refers to those people and not him. For that reason, you can't say "his" murder of a man. Sentence one as it stands means that a few people were executed because he committed murder, so that's wrong.
Sentence two is just an inversion of sentence one.
Sentence three makes sense, kind of, but the tense is wrong.
Sentence two is just an inversion of sentence one.
Sentence three makes sense, kind of, but the tense is wrong.
00
Thank you all.
I agree with Enoon on this one. The first two seem incorrect to me. And I agree that the tenses is the third one are not correct.
Gratefully,
Navi.
I agree with Enoon on this one. The first two seem incorrect to me. And I agree that the tenses is the third one are not correct.
Gratefully,
Navi.
0
Related Questions