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Tung Quoc Posted 20 years ago
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I think I am a very lucky person for I have had the privilege of learning what I love and doing jobs to which I feel committed, which paved the way for this current post.

What is the subject of which paved ?

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Hi, I think I am a very lucky person for I have had the privilege of learning what I love and doing jobs to which I feel committed, which paved the way for this current post. What is the subject of which paved ? ' It relates to 'the privilege'.

  • Hi, I think I am a very lucky person for I have had the privilege of learning what I love and doing jobs to which I feel committed, which paved the way for this current post.
  • What is the subject of which paved ?
  • ' It relates to 'the privilege'.
  • Best wishes, Clive
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Hi,

I think I am a very lucky person for I have had the privilege of learning what I love and doing jobs to which I feel committed, which paved the way for this current post.

What is the subject of which paved ? I think you mean 'What does it relate to?' It relates to 'the privilege'.

Best wishes, C
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Hi Tung Quoc

TMM (= to my mindEmotion: smile), the antecedent ofwhich is pretty much everything that precedes it, or at least mor
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I don't really understand how "the privilege" can "pave" anything... I also think there should be more than that...
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Yes, which refers to the entire concept "I have had the privilege of learning what I love and doing jobs to which I feel committed". It is this fact that paves the way etc.
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Clive is right.
It's privilege, however qualified by everything which follows it up here:
the privilege of learning what I love and doing jobs to which I feel committed
so it could be learning and doing interesting jobs, in the end.
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Do you think so, Marius? I share Pieanne's doubts: I don't really understand how "the privilege" can "pave" anything. It's not the privilege that paved the way, but the fact that the speaker had had the privilege.

Here we have to distinguish between different kinds of relative clause:

A. He ate a lot of oranges, which came from Sicily.
B. He ate
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Thank you, J Lewis! Emotion: smile

But, aside from the grammatical side, what paves a way has to be "a means" to get to something, right
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J LewisHere we have to distinguish between different kinds of relative clause:

A. He ate a lot of oranges, which came from Sicily.
B. He ate a lot of oranges, which annoyed me.

In A, what came from Sicily? The oranges.
In B, what annoyed me? Not the oranges but the fact that he ate them.

In my view, the which in the poster's examp

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