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Ask101 Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
Relative Clause
What's wrong with this sentence?
Surely that’s the boy that his sister won the painting competition.
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Surely that’s the boy that his sister won the painting competition.
Thank you.
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ask101 Surely that’s the boy that his sister won the painting competition. You need the relative possessive pronoun 'whose', not 'his'. And it has to be at the beginning of the relative clause.
- ask101 Surely that’s the boy that his sister won the painting competition.
- You need the relative possessive pronoun 'whose', not 'his'.
- And it has to be at the beginning of the relative clause.
- It's Surely that's the boy who won the competition.
- Not Surely that's the boy that he won the competition .
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ask101Surely that’s the boy that his sister won the painting competition.You need the relative possessive pronoun 'whose', not 'his'. And it has to be at the beginning of the relative clause.
It's Surely that's the boy who won the competition. Not Surely that's the boy that he won the competition.
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