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Cho7712 Posted 14 years ago
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Reading a material in the net, I found some tricky sentences.
e.g. Take the Internet: conservative political blogs tend
overwhelmingly to link with other conservative political
blogs; liberal blogs to other liberal blogs.
Some rules came up to my mind to understand this underlined sentence, but it seemed so mixed that I can't find out which rule is applied to this sentence let alone that my knowledge in the sentence structure is not good yet.
So would you let me know what operation is there to result in this very simplified sentence?
And secondly, this seems to be related with case of the relative pronoun.
e.g. When we hear a rumor denigrating someone in the
opposing political party, we are far more likely to send it
to friends — typically members of our own party -- whom
we think would enjoy hearing that rumor.
I bet it should be 'who' not whom. The use of whom does not follow a nominative case requirement for being the subject of the sentence, which is what I believe.
What do you think about that?
e.g. Take the Internet: conservative political blogs tend
overwhelmingly to link with other conservative political
blogs; liberal blogs to other liberal blogs.
Some rules came up to my mind to understand this underlined sentence, but it seemed so mixed that I can't find out which rule is applied to this sentence let alone that my knowledge in the sentence structure is not good yet.
So would you let me know what operation is there to result in this very simplified sentence?
And secondly, this seems to be related with case of the relative pronoun.
e.g. When we hear a rumor denigrating someone in the
opposing political party, we are far more likely to send it
to friends — typically members of our own party -- whom
we think would enjoy hearing that rumor.
I bet it should be 'who' not whom. The use of whom does not follow a nominative case requirement for being the subject of the sentence, which is what I believe.
What do you think about that?
Top answer
cho7712 Conservative political blogs tend overwhelmingly to link with other conservative political blogs; liberal blogs to other liberal blogs. This is another form of the following: Conservative political blogs tend overwhelmingly to link with other conservative political blogs; liberal political blogs tend overwhelmingly to link with other liberal political blogs. cho7712 send it to friends — typically members of our own party -- whom we think would enjoy hearing that rumor.
- cho7712 Conservative political blogs tend overwhelmingly to link with other conservative political blogs; liberal blogs to other liberal blogs.
- This is another form of the following: Conservative political blogs tend overwhelmingly to link with other conservative political blogs; liberal political blogs tend overwhelmingly to link with other liberal political blogs.
- cho7712 send it to friends — typically members of our own party -- whom we think would enjoy hearing that rumor.
- Correct.
- It should be "who".
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cho7712 Conservative political blogs tend overwhelmingly to link with other conservative political blogs; liberal blogs to other liberal blogs.This is another form of the following:
Conservative political blogs tend overwhelmingly to link with other conservative political blogs; liberal political blogs tend overwhelmingly to link with other liberal p
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Thank you for the answer,
So it is 'tend overwhelmingly' and 'link with' each that is omitted.
Then, what term is used to explain each of those deletions? (i.e. VP-deletion, Gapping? etc.)
So it is 'tend overwhelmingly' and 'link with' each that is omitted.
Then, what term is used to explain each of those deletions? (i.e. VP-deletion, Gapping? etc.)
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cho7712what term is usedI believe it's usually called ellipsis, but to tell the truth I'm not sure. Sometimes there are so many different terms for the same thing that it depends on which book you're using.
CJ
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Thank you for the answer.
I had better read the related grammar book to establish the very basic concept of ellipsis.
I had better read the related grammar book to establish the very basic concept of ellipsis.
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