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Moon7296 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
parallelism and subject and verb
“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
Q) Is the main verb for the subject, the fact, "covered?"
Q2) "...and think" is conncected to "The fact that we," i.e. "...and (the fact that we) think," right?
Q) Is the main verb for the subject, the fact, "covered?"
Q2) "...and think" is conncected to "The fact that we," i.e. "...and (the fact that we) think," right?
Top answer
" The main verb is is . Either the first comma should be deleted or another should be added: The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas-covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away , and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be. Actually, I think the sentence is better without them.
- " The main verb is is .
- Either the first comma should be deleted or another should be added: The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas-covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away , and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.
- Actually, I think the sentence is better without them.
- e.
- and (the fact that we) think," right?
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moon7296Q) Is the main verb for the subject, the fact, "covered?"The main verb is is.
Either the first comma should be deleted or another should be added:
The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas-covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
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