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Anewcomer Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

Sentence "who" "to be"

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00Which one is correct? or are both acceptable?02br
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001. She is the first girl I have ever seen to be so interested in computer02br
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002. She is the first girl I have ever seen who is so interested in computer02br
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00Any difference in meaning (please tell the difference) ?02br
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0 01blockquote 01cite 10Anewcomer12cite 101. She is the first girl I have ever seen to be so interested in computer12br 12br 102. She is the first girl I have ever seen who is so interested in computer12br 12blockquote 10Neither sentence is correct.

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  • 0 01blockquote 01cite 10Anewcomer12cite 101.
  • She is the first girl I have ever seen to be so interested in computer12br 12br 102.
  • She is the first girl I have ever seen who is so interested in computer12br 12blockquote 10Neither sentence is correct.
  • 02i 00 The second sentence is the better of the two but I don't like it very much because it contains two successive relative clauses: 01i 00...
  • I have ever seen02i 00...
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01cite10Anewcomer12cite101. She is the first girl I have ever seen to be so interested in computer12br
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102. She is the first girl I have ever seen who is so interested in computer12br
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10Neither sentence is correct. 01i00Computer02i00 should be 01i
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00But it seems to be used : "For instance, Ms. Redgrave is the first Prospero 01b00I02b00 01b00have02b00 01b00seen02b00 01b00who02b00 might have nurtured a daughter from babyhood to adolescence" "His open and friendly persona creates one of the few clowns 01b00
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01cite10Anewcomer12cite10 So is it grammatical? 12br
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10It's grammatical all right. The longer the sentence, the better it sounds to me.02br
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0it's incorrect but grammatical? So which one is grammatical and correct? the "who" or "to be" ?0-
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0The ...who is... structure is okay to me.02br
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00She the first student I've ever had who actually did all her assignments on time.02br
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00He was the first professor I'd ever had (although not the last) who genuinely cared about teaching and no simply sounding erudite.02br
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00But I don't like your "who is so interested..." -
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0 Dear teacher ,02br
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00Can I say " 01i00I have never seen a girl so interested in computers." ?02i0-
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0Yes, that's fine.0-
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1i00to be the first * to (be)02i00 is essentially the same as 01i00to be the first * who/which (is/was/ ...)02i00.02br
00Note that the first form has no tense marker, so that's a slight difference.02br
00The first form is used to emphasize an accomplisment.02br
01i00Hawkins was the first Englishman to sail his o
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0CJ, I remember hearing a movie character say "If you don't cooperate, you son will be the first to suffer." There's no accomplishment. Are we talking about the same thing here? Am I totally off?0-
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