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English 1b3 Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Relative clause variations. Acceptable?

I was reading a question about whether the following sentences were correct. There were various different answers:

1a) I parked a whole bunch of cars in my garage, of which I parked two.

1b) I was part of a project, of which I believed in the importance.



1a) I parked a whole bunch of cars in my garage, two of which I parked.
1b) I was part of a project the importance, of which I believed in

Would you say all are accetpable (forgetting that they may be slightly awkward or uncommon)?

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English 1b3 I was reading a question about whether the following sentences were correct. There were various different answers: 1a) I parked a whole bunch of cars in my garage, of which I parked two. Makes no sense.

— Avangi

  • English 1b3 I was reading a question about whether the following sentences were correct.
  • There were various different answers: 1a) I parked a whole bunch of cars in my garage, of which I parked two.
  • Makes no sense.
  • 1b) I was part of a project, of which I believed in the importance.
  • "" The importance of which" works for me.
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English 1b3I was reading a question about whether the following sentences were correct. There were various different answers:

1a) I parked a whole bunch of cars in my garage, of which I parked two. Makes no sense.

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Sorry, Avangi! Instead of just copying and pasting the sentences, I wrote them down, just before drifting off to sleep. Clearly this was not a good idea.

1a and 2a should read:

I parked a whole bunch of cars, of which I owned two.

I parked a whole bunch of cars in my garage, two of which I owned.

Furthermore, I made a misake with 1b. It should rea
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Next time, try it just after drifting off to sleep. It works for me!
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English 1b31) I parked a whole bunch of cars in my garage, of which I owned two.

2) I was part of a project, of which I believed in the importance.



3) I parked a wh
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CalifJimThey are all OK except 2.

Emotion: sad Why is 2 wrong?
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English 1b3Why is 2 wrong?
Your guess is as good as mine. It may have something to do with being "too deep" in prepositional phrases. Below I marked the one I find ungrammatical.

1) I parked a whole bunch of cars in my garage, of which I owned two.
2) I was part of a project, of which I believed in the importance.
3) I parked a whole bunch o
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Thank you for your trying to get your head around this. It seems it is a far more technical aspect of grammar than I first believed, so much so that I think I'll wait until someone with a greater understanding of the language than I draws conclusions for me in layman's terms.

CalifJimMy wild guess is that (in the simplest possible language) if you have tw
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