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Aya-san Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

"where there is"

The following sentence is from my English textbook.

"The teacher taught us the difference where there is between right and wrong."

Is it OK to just say

"The teacher taught us the difference between right and wrong." ?

If so, are these same meaning?
  

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Aya-san The following sentence is from my English textbook. " That is not standard English, for sure. Your own version is correct.

— Davkett

  • Aya-san The following sentence is from my English textbook.
  • " That is not standard English, for sure.
  • Your own version is correct.
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Aya-sanThe following sentence is from my English textbook.

"The teacher taught us the difference where there is between right and wrong."

That is not standard English, for sure. Your own version is correct.
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The correct form is "The teacher taught us the difference between right and wrong."

Adding "where there is" simply makes awkward nonsense of the idea. Are you sure that was in your textbook?

CJ
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If that was what your textbook really said, you need to burn it immediately.
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"The teacher taught us where there is a difference between right and wrong."
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Anonymous"The teacher taught us where there is a difference between right and wrong."
I, too, thought of this grammatical possibility, but considering the content, found it to be very strange. (I'd be quite curious about a lecture entitled, "Where is the Difference Between Right and Wrong?")
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My big apology to all who kindly replied to my question.

For a moment I thought I beat my textbook that I was really happy. But when I checked the textbook agian, I realized that

I misquoted the sentence!!!
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Aya-san"The teacher taught us the difference that there is between right and wrong.".

This corrected version is about as bad as your original misquoted version.

' The teacher taught us the difference between right and wrong' is still the best version.
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Oh, really? Then I do need to consider burning the textbook!

Thanks a lot davkett!
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