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Hans51 Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Usage of 'of'

Of the 160 recreational forests spread across Korea, this is the first one with a beautiful panoramic view of the beach as its backdrop."

I have seen the sentence and this is somewhat weird because of the 160 recreational forests functions as a subject but as far as I know, prepositional phrases can not be a subject or is it an inversion and then what is the subject of the sentence? Or just the sentence is falsely written?

Or Of the 160 recreational forests spread across Korea functions as an adverb, I think this is right, and then is it okay to write it like that? or of should change to among?

What do you native English speakers think? Thank you so much as usual in advance!
  

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Of the 160 recreational forests spread across Korea , [introductory prepositional phrase] this [subject] is [verb] the first one with a beautiful panoramic view of the beach as its backdrop. [complement]"

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  • Of the 160 recreational forests spread across Korea , [introductory prepositional phrase] this [subject] is [verb] the first one with a beautiful panoramic view of the beach as its backdrop.
  • [complement]"
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Of the 160 recreational forests spread across Korea, [introductory prepositional phrase]
this [subject]
is [verb]
the first one with a beautiful panoramic view of the beach as its backdrop. [complement]"
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I am no native speakter, but it means "among" which is a preposition, not an adverb. If you are German it's the same though it doesn't sound very good. "Von den 160 ... Wäldern ... ist dieser ..." Hier würde es sich schon besser anhören: "Von 100 Tierarten schaffte es eine zu überleben."
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I meant "of" is genitive (as in German), "among" would be an adverb, and the subject of the sentence is "this".
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