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Olive grape 876 Posted 4 years ago
Grammar

Whose, the x of which—comma

Hello,

I have two sentences:

1. "This is the car whose acceleration is the worst."

2. "I would like to thank my family, whose paintings provided the inspiration for this novel."



If I rewrite the sentences as follows, do the commas change:


1. "This is the car (,) the acceleration of which is the worst."

2. "I would like to thank my family (,) the paintings of which provided the inspiration for this novel."


Thanks for any answers

  

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olive grape 876 If I rewrite the sentences as follows, do the commas change: No, but "of whom" is more like it for a family. The rewrites are a little tortured, I guess you know.

— Anonymous

  • olive grape 876 If I rewrite the sentences as follows, do the commas change: No, but "of whom" is more like it for a family.
  • The rewrites are a little tortured, I guess you know.
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olive grape 876If I rewrite the sentences as follows, do the commas change:

No, but "of whom" is more like it for a family. The rewrites are a little tortured, I guess you know.

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olive grape 8761. "This is the car whose acceleration is the worst."

Yuk. Very yuk. The rewrite is worse. Learn to write natural English that native speakers would use.

This is the car that has the worst acceleration.

This car has the worst acceleration (of all of them).

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