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Victo Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
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Viewers come in contact with two adjacent film projectors through which passes a single loop of film. (Singular because there is only one loop of film.)
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Viewers come in contact with two adjacent film projectors through which pass a single loop of film. (Plural because the action of going through the projectors occurs twice.)
Advice welcome, but no recasts please.
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Viewers come in contact with two adjacent film projectors through which pass a single loop of film. (Plural because the action of going through the projectors occurs twice.)
Advice welcome, but no recasts please.
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victo Advice welcome, Just concentrate on what the subject and verb are. Don't consider other things. Then you should be able to decide which sentence is correct.
- victo Advice welcome, Just concentrate on what the subject and verb are.
- Don't consider other things.
- Then you should be able to decide which sentence is correct.
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victoAdvice welcome,Just concentrate on what the subject and verb are. Don't consider other things.
Then you should be able to decide which sentence is correct.
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By 'Viewers come in contact with', do you mean 'Viewers touch'? Sounds odd.
In both cases, the subject of the clause is the singular word 'loop'
Whether the loop passes through the projectors once or one hundred times makes no difference.
In both cases, the subject of the clause is the singular word 'loop'
Whether the loop passes through the projectors once or one hundred times makes no difference.
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victoViewers come in contact with two adjacent film projectors through which pass a single loop of film. (Plural because the action of going through the projectors occurs twice.)Seriously? Do you think maybe we should write "Fred write two letters every day" because Fred performs the letter-writing action twice? And "The three men was only there once" becau
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victo no recasts please.You have made this odd request before. If a sentence needs to be changed in some way to become good English , then we'll suggest the change. Other members read the threads, and many are interested in the most natural forms.
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