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Taka Posted 20 years ago
Grammar
over which
In the age of abundance, the apparent availability of virtually all material necessities tended to lead people to expect speedy gratification of their desires and to have little sense of the length of time over which people in other times and places had had to wait in order to have some of their more basic material needs satisfied.
About 'over which', if you were supposed to pin down the single word that the 'over which' refers to, which word would it be; 'the length (of time)' or 'time'?
About 'over which', if you were supposed to pin down the single word that the 'over which' refers to, which word would it be; 'the length (of time)' or 'time'?
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is both: the respective time interval
- is both: the respective time interval
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no,
a length of time
is a group of words with a meaning different from the components
but if you want to simplify things
it would be
time
which is more important
a length of time
is a group of words with a meaning different from the components
but if you want to simplify things
it would be
time
which is more important
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Marius Hancubut if you want to simplify thingsI don't think we can simplfy it that way, because 'people had to wait over time' wouldn't really make sense, would it?
it would be
time
which is more important
But I don't think 'people had to wait over the length' would make sense either, so I asked the question.
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I meant to simplify things for understanding, not to change the phrase
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Right.
It's just, I didn't think it would be so easy for my students to understand it because they usually learn the mechanism of relative pronouns as something like this:
That is the house the house ten years ago=>That is the house in which/where I lived ten years ago
It's just, I didn't think it would be so easy for my students to understand it because they usually learn the mechanism of relative pronouns as something like this:
That is the house the house ten years ago=>That is the house in which/where I lived ten years ago
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