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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
Grammar
Restrictive/Unrestrictive Clause
What do you make of the following sentence:
"The most important of these is the Noise Act 2000, which is treated primarily in Chapter 8 (which is completely new), other than its provisions on adverse nuisance which are found at the end of Chapter 30."
I think it should be:
"The most important of these is the Noise Act 2000 that is treated primarily in Chapter 8 (which is completely new) other than its provisions on adverse nuisance that are found at the end of Chapter 30."
I'm not sure about the first "that", can't convince myself it is a restrictive clause, yet in the context of the whole sentence it appears to be.
What do you think?
"The most important of these is the Noise Act 2000, which is treated primarily in Chapter 8 (which is completely new), other than its provisions on adverse nuisance which are found at the end of Chapter 30."
I think it should be:
"The most important of these is the Noise Act 2000 that is treated primarily in Chapter 8 (which is completely new) other than its provisions on adverse nuisance that are found at the end of Chapter 30."
I'm not sure about the first "that", can't convince myself it is a restrictive clause, yet in the context of the whole sentence it appears to be.
What do you think?
Top answer
" I would omit the first "which" and change the third to "that".
- " I would omit the first "which" and change the third to "that".
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"The most important of these is the Noise Act 2000, which is treated primarily in Chapter 8 (which is completely new), other than its provisions on adverse nuisance that are found at the end of Chapter 30."
I would omit the first "which" and change the third to "that".
I would omit the first "which" and change the third to "that".
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Yes, the 3rd which I'm happy about (it's clearly wrong).
Forget style for a moment, do you think that can grammatically be justified?
I'm more interested whether it can be seen as a restrictive clause, as onefirst glance you would say no; yet in the context of the sentence a case could certainly be made.
Forget style for a moment, do you think that can grammatically be justified?
I'm more interested whether it can be seen as a restrictive clause, as onefirst glance you would say no; yet in the context of the sentence a case could certainly be made.
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Anonymous"The most important of these is the Noise Act 2000,As already suggested, for stylistic reasons the first which and the passiwhich istreated primarily in Chapter 8 (which is completely new), other than its provisions on adverse nuisance, which are found at the end of Chapter 30."
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