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Anonymous Posted 21 years ago
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Please advise if following sentence is grammaticaly correct:
While in the Old Stone Age, men learned to control fire for heating and cooking.
While in the Old Stone Age, men learned to control fire for heating and cooking.
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Yes, it is correct, but a little odd, as the verbless clause ( while [they were] in the Paleolithic period ) seems uncalled for. We don't think of the same men as being in the Old Stone Age, the New Stone Age, and the Modern period; rather, we are speaking of the species. More expected would be: In the Old Stone Age, men learned to control fire for heating and cooking .
- Yes, it is correct, but a little odd, as the verbless clause ( while [they were] in the Paleolithic period ) seems uncalled for.
- We don't think of the same men as being in the Old Stone Age, the New Stone Age, and the Modern period; rather, we are speaking of the species.
- More expected would be: In the Old Stone Age, men learned to control fire for heating and cooking .
- (where in = during , giving us a prepostional phrase used as an adverb of time modifying the entire main clause)
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Yes, it is correct, but a little odd, as the verbless clause (while [they were] in the Paleolithic period) seems uncalled for. We don't think of the same men as being in the Old Stone Age, the New Stone Age, and the Modern period; rather, we are speaking of the species. More expected would be:
In the Old Stone Age, men learned to control fire for heating and cooking.
In the Old Stone Age, men learned to control fire for heating and cooking.
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