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Viceidol Posted 18 years ago
Grammar
Verb confusion with "a group of ..."
1 b 00 A group of 02 b 00 01 b 00 students 02 b 00 who 01 b 01 font 00 come 02 font 02 b 00 from Japan 01 font 01 b 00 are 02 b 02 font 00 going to visit London tomorow. 02 br
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01 b 00 A group of students 02 b 00 who 01 b 01 font 00 come 02 font 02 b 00 from Japan 01 font 01 b 00 is 02 b 02 font 00 going to visit London tomorow. 02 br
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01 b 00 A group of students 02 b 00 who 01 b 01 font 00 comes 02 font 02 b 00 from Japan 01 font 01 b 00 are 02 b 02 font 00 going to visit London tomorow. 02 br
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01 b 00 A group of students 02 b 00 who 01 font 01 b 00 comes 02 b 02 font 00 from Japan 01 font 01 b 00 is 02 b 02 font 00 going to visit London tomorow. 02 br
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00 May I ask which of those are better ones concerning the verbs they used? 02 br
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00 My biggest doubt is about the antecedent. I'm not sure whether 01 b 00 "A group of students" 02 b 00 or only 01 b 00 "students" 02 b 00 is the antecedent of the relative clause in the examples. 02 br
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00 Could you please help me solve my doubt? Thank you! 05 0 010id 1
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01 b 00 A group of students 02 b 00 who 01 b 01 font 00 come 02 font 02 b 00 from Japan 01 font 01 b 00 is 02 b 02 font 00 going to visit London tomorow. 02 br
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01 b 00 A group of students 02 b 00 who 01 b 01 font 00 comes 02 font 02 b 00 from Japan 01 font 01 b 00 are 02 b 02 font 00 going to visit London tomorow. 02 br
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01 b 00 A group of students 02 b 00 who 01 font 01 b 00 comes 02 b 02 font 00 from Japan 01 font 01 b 00 is 02 b 02 font 00 going to visit London tomorow. 02 br
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00 May I ask which of those are better ones concerning the verbs they used? 02 br
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00 My biggest doubt is about the antecedent. I'm not sure whether 01 b 00 "A group of students" 02 b 00 or only 01 b 00 "students" 02 b 00 is the antecedent of the relative clause in the examples. 02 br
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00 Could you please help me solve my doubt? Thank you! 05 0 010id 1
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>>is correct 02 br 02 br 00 it should be 'A group of students as group mean it is more than one 0-
- >>is correct 02 br 02 br 00 it should be 'A group of students as group mean it is more than one 0-
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1 b 00 My take 02 b 02 br
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01 b 00 A group of students 02 b 00 who 01 b 01 font 00 comes 02 font 02 b 00 from Japan 01 font 01 b 00 are 02 b 02 font 00 going to visit London tomorow.>>is correct 02 br
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01 b 00 A group of students 02 b 00 who 01 b 01 font 00 comes 02 font 02 b 00 from Japan 01 font 01 b 00 are 02 b 02 font 00 going to visit London tomorow.>>is correct 02 br
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00 it should be 'A grou
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0 The first two sentences are correct. You can use either. The "rule of proximity" allows for your second sentence. 02 br
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00 The last two are incorrect. By using the form "comes" you're referring to the group, and you shouldn't replace the noun "group" with the pronoun "who", not even if that's a group of people. 02 br
00 "A group of students 01 u 01 b 0
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00 The last two are incorrect. By using the form "comes" you're referring to the group, and you shouldn't replace the noun "group" with the pronoun "who", not even if that's a group of people. 02 br
00 "A group of students 01 u 01 b 0
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A group of students coming from japan will visit London tomorrow.
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You focus on the main subject of the sentence which is "group" students aside, as you could still construct this sentence by omitted "of students". Therefore it is "comes" and "is", though I should note that since this sentence concerns itself with a nonhuman subject (i.e. "group"), it should also be "which" instead of "who" in the sentence.
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