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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
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what word should i use ?

0 Layer upon layer of stone make up the canyons straited walls , 01i00_____02i00 deepest levels are formed of sombre schist and fossil rich granite.02br
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00i want to use one word in the 01i00____02i00 to complete the sentence , can i use " whose " here ????02br
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00thanks in advance 02br
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00Leo0-
  

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0Hello Leo02br 02br 00I would happily use "whose". "02br 02br 00MrP0-

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0Hello Leo02br
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00I would happily use "whose". 02br
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00But some native speakers would be uncomfortable with "whose", and say this instead:02br
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00"Layer upon layer of stone make up the canyon's straited walls, the deepest levels of which are formed of sombre schist and fossil-rich granite."02br
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00MrP
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0 "whose" is fine, but sounds unusual. I would use "where the".0-
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0Hi,02br
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01font00. . . the canyons straited walls . . . 02font02br
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00It's a little off topic, but . . .02br
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00An apostrophe is needed to clarify whether we are speaking of one or several canyons.02br
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00The walls are 01i00striated02i00, no
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0 Mr. P. Is that true that we can use the "whose" for things as well as living persons? 0-
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0 I am going off-tangent with the topic being discussed but your word "straited" should be "stratified," I think. 0-
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0Hi,02br
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00Actually, you don't appear to have read all the earlier responses. The word intended in the original post was clearly01font00 striated02font01i00.02i00 The original poster just transposed the 'a' and the 'i'.02br
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01font00striated02font
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