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English 1b3 Posted 13 years ago
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Ungrammatical sentence - ... of which...
João Vaz Corte-Real, a Portuguese navigator, claims to have discovered the New Land of the Codfish, an unidentified island of which there is some speculation that it might be Newfoundland, in present-day Canada.
I believe this is not correct. How is this meant to read exactly?
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I believe this is not correct. How is this meant to read exactly?
Thanks
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English 1b3 I believe this is not correct. I think it is a bit awkward, but OK. It should be clearer to you with an alternative preposition: João Vaz Corte-Real, a Portuguese navigator, claims to have discovered the New Land of the Codfish, an unidentified island about which there is some speculation that it might be Newfoundland, in present-day Canada.
- English 1b3 I believe this is not correct.
- I think it is a bit awkward, but OK.
- It should be clearer to you with an alternative preposition: João Vaz Corte-Real, a Portuguese navigator, claims to have discovered the New Land of the Codfish, an unidentified island about which there is some speculation that it might be Newfoundland, in present-day Canada.
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English 1b3I believe this is not correct.I think it is a bit awkward, but OK. It should be clearer to you with an alternative preposition:
João Vaz Corte-Real, a Portuguese navigator, claims to have discovered the New Land of the Codfish, an unidentified island about which there is some speculation that it might be Newfoundland, in present-
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