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Is the following sentence correct?This small clip consists of different pictures spliced together which make the coin looks as if it were moving of/on its own.

Yoong Liat · Accepted Answer

Jackson6612Is the following sentence correct?

This small clip consists of different pictures spliced together which make the coin looks as if it were moving of/on its own.

This small clip, which consists of different pictures spliced together, makes the coin look as if it were moving on its own.

Jackson6612 · Answer

Yoong Liat
Jackson6612Is the following sentence correct?
This small clip consists of different pictures spliced together which make the coin looks as if it were moving of/on its own.
This small clip, which consists of different pictures spliced together, makes the coin look as if it were moving on its own.

I believe it's splicing of the pictures/frames which make the coin look as if it were moving on its own. The clip shows the coin moving. It does not make the coin look as if it was....
What do you say?
Best wishes, Jackson

Avangi · Answer

Hi Jackson.  It sounds like you're describing old fashioned animation (like early Disney movies) in which each successive frame shows the character in a slightly more advanced position.  Am I correct?  - A.

Jackson6612 · Answer

Question 1:
Avangi, you are right. I have read somewhere, perhaps Wikipedia, that King Kong (1934) was the first movie to use this technique. What is your answer to the question which I posed in my previous e-mail to Y. Liat?

Question 2:

Which of the following sentences is correct?

1: What is your answer to the question which I posed in my previous e-mail to Y. Liat?

2: What is your answer to the question which I posed to Y. Liat in my previous e-mail?

Question 3:

What is the difference in meaning between the following sentences? Or which one is more correct in the above context? In the first sentence present perfect is used and in the second one present indefinite. How would it affect the meaning it is put between read and ''somewhere?

1: I have read somewhere, perhaps...

2: I read somewhere, perhaps...

Avangi · Answer

Jackson6612I believe it's splicing of the pictures/frames which make the coin look as if it were moving on its own. The clip shows the coin moving. It does not make the coin look as if it was.
What do you say?This strikes me as a philosophical question. Suppose we place a coin on an inclined table which has been fitted with an electric vibrator. We mount a videocamera above, looking perpendicularly at the table top, with no visible reference to the true horizontal. We turn on the vibrator and the camera and record what happens.

In this case it would be fair to say the image makes the coin look as if it's moving under its own power. The coin and the image are both real. But to someone who has not been privy to our setup, the image does show the coin moving under its own power.

But if the coin exists only on the animator's drawing board, the image may well show the coin flying to the moon. To the animator, it's a series of drawings; to the final viewer, it's a movie of a coin flying to the moon. In the movie, the coin "really" flies to the moon.

1: What is your answer to the question which I posed in my previous e-mail to Y. Liat? I think these are both fine

2: What is your answer to the question which I posed to Y. Liat in my previous e-mail?

What is the difference in meaning between the following sentences? Or which one is more correct in the above context? In the first sentence present perfect is used and in the second one present indefinite. How would it affect the meaning it is put between read and ''somewhere?

1: I have read somewhere, perhaps...

2: I read somewhere, perhaps...

I don't think "it" would add anything, so better to leave it out.

I like the present perfect. It seems to allow that you've read it on more than one occasion. "Read" as present tense doesn't work for me. "Read" as simple past is okay, but doesn't seem as positive as the present perfect.

- A.

Yoong Liat · Answer

Hi Jackson

Is the following sentence correct?

This small clip consists of different pictures spliced together which make the coin looks as if it were moving of/on its own.

This small clip, which consists of different pictures spliced together, makes the coin look as if it were moving on its own.

This small clip consisting of different pictures spliced together makes the coin look as if it were moving on its own.

Do the above sentences give a clearer pictiure that the clip makes the coin look as if it were moving on its own?

Avangi · Answer

Hi Yoong, sorry to stick my nose in.  I think your sentences absolutely do what you want them to do.  But I don't think Jackson wants "This small clip" to be the thing that makes the coin seem to move on it's own.  I realized that much too late.   - A.

Avangi · Answer

<< This small clip consists of different pictures spliced together which make the coin look as if it were moving on its own. >>

It's difficult to make "spliced together" the thing referred to by the "which" clause. I think "different pictures spliced together" must be taken as a unit, followed by a comma, and would then take the singular verb "makes."

Alternately, you could say, ". . . . different pictures spliced together [in such a way as] to make the coin look as if it were moving . . . . . ", using the infinitive "to make." It's a bit cumbersome.

Jackson, I'm sorry, I completely misunderstood your objection to "pictures" or "clip" as the reference for the "which" clause. I thought you were making a point about whether the coin really moved on its own or merely seemed to do so.

If your intention or desire is to stress that it's the splicing that brings it off, that should be allowed.

Yoong Liat · Answer

Hi Avangi

Thanks for pointing out my misconception. I was thinking from the grammatical point of view. And it turns out that I'm wrong.

Jackson6612 · Answer

Thank you, Y. Liat and Avangi.

Best wishes,
Jackson

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