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Book lime 518 Posted 8 years ago
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Will this sentence be okay?

The original was:

"The characters that are transferred from parents to offsprings are called inheritable characters"

whereas I wrote:

""The characteristics which are transferred from parents to offsprings are called inheritable characters""

  

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book lime 518 The original was:"The characters that are transferred from parents to offsprings are called inheritable characters"whereas I wrote:""The characteristics which are transferred from parents to offsprings are called inheritable characters" They are both wrong because 'offspring' has no distinct plural form; however, both 'that' and 'which' are fine there: The characters that/which are transferred from parents to offspring are called inheritable characters.

  • book lime 518 The original was:"The characters that are transferred from parents to offsprings are called inheritable characters"whereas I wrote:""The characteristics which are transferred from parents to offsprings are called inheritable characters" They are both wrong because 'offspring' has no distinct plural form; however, both 'that' and 'which' are fine there: The characters that/which are transferred from parents to offspring are called inheritable characters.
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book lime 518The original was:"The characters that are transferred from parents to offsprings are called inheritable characters"whereas I wrote:""The characteristics which are transferred from parents to offsprings are called inheritable characters"

They are both wrong because 'offspring' has no distinct plural form; however, both 'that' and 'which' are fin

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