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Taka Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Which

What do you think the relative pronoun "which" refers to here? The entire sentence in front, or "a trip (together)"?

We are making a trip together, which we haven't done for a long time.
  

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The entire first part. I wouldn't say ' making a trip' is wrong, but in a context like this I always hear or read ' taking a trip'. ' Clive

— Clive

  • The entire first part.
  • I wouldn't say ' making a trip' is wrong, but in a context like this I always hear or read ' taking a trip'.
  • ' Clive
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The entire first part.

I wouldn't say 'making a trip' is wrong, but in a context like this I always hear or read 'taking a trip'.

I associate 'making a trip' with an object, eg I have to make
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Even if it were "We will take a trip (notice it's "will"), would you still think it refers to the entire first part?

It's about something in the future and if the relative pronoun refers to the entire sentence in front, the "which" is also about the future. But it's the object of the present prefect "haven't done". Does it make sense? Something about the future as the object of the
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We will take a trip together, which we haven't done for a long time.
We are taking a trip together tomorrow, which we haven't done for a long time

In both cases, 'which' refers to the idea of 'taking a trip together'.

You could reword.
We will take a trip
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Clive'.You could reword.We will take a trip together. We haven't taken a trip together for a long time.We are taking a trip together tomorrow. We haven't taken a trip together for a long time.
If so, purely from a grammatical point of view, isn't it safe to say that "which" refers to the noun "a trip (together)", as grammar boo
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It's the 'taking' that we haven't done for a long time, not just 'the trip'.

Clive
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I see. Thanks, Clive!
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