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Pokh Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Prepositional Phrase

Louis Agassiz in 1837 to propose the concept of an age in which great ice sheets existed in what are now temperate areas.

Dont we need to have comma in what are now temperate areas..There seems to be two prepositional phrase in series....Please clarify
  

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pokh Louis Agassiz in 1837 to propose the concept of an age in which great ice sheets existed in what are now temperate areas. Please clarify There was an age in which (or during which) something happened. That "something" was the existence of great sheets of ice in what are now temperate areas.

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  • pokh Louis Agassiz in 1837 to propose the concept of an age in which great ice sheets existed in what are now temperate areas.
  • Please clarify There was an age in which (or during which) something happened.
  • That "something" was the existence of great sheets of ice in what are now temperate areas.
  • The second "in" tells you where the sheets of ice were.
  • They were in what are now temperate ares.
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pokhLouis Agassiz in 1837 to propose the concept of an age in which great ice sheets existed in what are now temperate areas. Dont we need to have comma ..There seems to be two prepositional phrase in series..Please clarify
There was an age in which (or during which) something happened.

That "something" was the existence of great sheets of ice
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