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SpoonfedBaby Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

Remove IT? whose concern IT is to state life...

Dear Teachers and everybody,

I wish you a beautifull 2006.

Please, I would like to know if I can remove the word "it" from the sentence
"AND so again, if we take a modern author of a very different type, such a one as Henry James, whose concern IT is to state life, with a view to throwing into relief the finer shades[...]"

Thank you very much,

Spoonfedbaby
  

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Dear SpoonFedBB I would be more of an 'everybody' than a 'teacher', let me get that straight to begin with... Bonne année and happy new year to you too. I think not only you can remove the word 'it' but you'd have to.

— Waïti

  • Dear SpoonFedBB I would be more of an 'everybody' than a 'teacher', let me get that straight to begin with...
  • Bonne année and happy new year to you too.
  • I think not only you can remove the word 'it' but you'd have to.
  • Also it seems to me you should remove 'a one' in 'such a one as' : I think 'such as Henry James' is what's correct here...
  • " and this is because : - the form you're using with 'to' + '-ing' isn't right.
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Dear SpoonFedBB
I would be more of an 'everybody' than a 'teacher', let me get that straight to begin with...
Bonne année and happy new year to you too.
I think not only you can remove the word 'it' but you'd have to.
Also it seems to me you should remove 'a one' in 'such a one as' : I think 'such as Henry James' is what's correct here...
Last I would change the ending part to
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