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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

which sentence is preferred

a) There can be no happiness in a world that the undesirables are thrown away.

b) No happiness can be found in a country that eliminates people they deem unnecessary.
  

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Anonymous a) There can be no happiness in a world that the undesirables are thrown away. That doesn't work. You need to change "that" to "in which" to make it grammatical.

  • Anonymous a) There can be no happiness in a world that the undesirables are thrown away.
  • That doesn't work.
  • You need to change "that" to "in which" to make it grammatical.
  • Even then, it would be unnatural.
  • Anonymous b) No happiness can be found in a country that eliminates people they deem unnecessary.
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Anonymous a) There can be no happiness in a world that the undesirables are thrown away.
That doesn't work. You need to change "that" to "in which" to make it grammatical. Even then, it would be unnatural.
Anonymousb) No happiness can be found in a country that eliminates people they deem unnecessary.
That's grammatical but
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Anonymousa) There can be no happiness in a world that the undesirables are thrown away.
There can be no happiness in a world where udesirables are thrown away.
There can be no happiness in a world which throws udesirables away.
Anonymousb) No happiness can be found in a country that eliminates people they deem unnecess
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Thank you for the suggested revision.
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Thank you for your input on this.

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