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Zazzex Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
Writing a long sentence
Hello,
I want to write as follows, but it is confusing.:
This modern society, which is increasingly being globalized and opening to the world, demands the attitude of understanding different countries and respecting different culture on the basis of broad knowledge of various places of the world of students of this era.
The above 's structure is as follows:
The modern society demands something of somebody.
Here, something is [the attitude of understanding different countries and respecting different culture on the basis of broad knowledge of various places of the world]
, and somebody is [students of this era]
The setence structure can be simplified as follows:
This modern society, which is increasingly being globalized and opening to the world, demands [the attitude of understanding different countries and respecting different culture on the basis of broad knowledge of various places of the world] of [students of this era].
I am not sure in such a case, how I should write it.
One solutin may be this?
This modern society, which is increasingly being globalized and opening to the world, demands, of [students of this era], [the attitude of understanding different countries and respecting different culture on the basis of broad knowledge of various places of the world].
Please help me, thank you very much.
I want to write as follows, but it is confusing.:
This modern society, which is increasingly being globalized and opening to the world, demands the attitude of understanding different countries and respecting different culture on the basis of broad knowledge of various places of the world of students of this era.
The above 's structure is as follows:
The modern society demands something of somebody.
Here, something is [the attitude of understanding different countries and respecting different culture on the basis of broad knowledge of various places of the world]
, and somebody is [students of this era]
The setence structure can be simplified as follows:
This modern society, which is increasingly being globalized and opening to the world, demands [the attitude of understanding different countries and respecting different culture on the basis of broad knowledge of various places of the world] of [students of this era].
I am not sure in such a case, how I should write it.
One solutin may be this?
This modern society, which is increasingly being globalized and opening to the world, demands, of [students of this era], [the attitude of understanding different countries and respecting different culture on the basis of broad knowledge of various places of the world].
Please help me, thank you very much.
Top answer
I understand this sentence is not the best example, but my point is how to deal with repeated prepositions of noun objects with a preposition-having-verb. For example: in using DEMAND A OF B let's suppose A include multiple nouns connected by OF then, in details the phrase will look like DEMAND A[ something OF something ] OF B Adding complication, let's suppose B is also multiple-noun object including OF. Then, the phrase will look like DEMAND A[ something of something ] OF B[ something of something ] , which will finally look like DEMAND something OF something OF something OF something so, how do you deal with this to mean DEMAND A OF B?
- I understand this sentence is not the best example, but my point is how to deal with repeated prepositions of noun objects with a preposition-having-verb.
- For example: in using DEMAND A OF B let's suppose A include multiple nouns connected by OF then, in details the phrase will look like DEMAND A[ something OF something ] OF B Adding complication, let's suppose B is also multiple-noun object including OF.
- Then, the phrase will look like DEMAND A[ something of something ] OF B[ something of something ] , which will finally look like DEMAND something OF something OF something OF something so, how do you deal with this to mean DEMAND A OF B?
- There can be many other similar cases.
- For example, " put A in B " can all become as follows PUT someting in something IN something in something I am sure many would encounter such a problem, and just want to hear any responses.
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I understand this sentence is not the best example, but my point is how to deal with repeated prepositions of noun objects with a preposition-having-verb.
For example: in using DEMAND A OF B
let's suppose A include multiple nouns connected by OF
then, in details the phrase will look like
DEMAND A[something OF something] OF B
Addin
For example: in using DEMAND A OF B
let's suppose A include multiple nouns connected by OF
then, in details the phrase will look like
DEMAND A[something OF something] OF B
Addin
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zazzexThis modern society, which is increasingly being globalized and opening to the world, demands, of [students of this era], [the attitude of understanding different countries and respecting different culture on the basis of broad knowledge of various places of the world].This structure is much better IMO. In the first version,
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zazzexThere can be many other similar cases.
If the nested expressions get too complicated then you may just have to give up and think of a different way of putting it.
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Thanks all; I am getting clearer about it.
Regarding the sentence you said is much better:
This modern society, which is increasingly being globalized and opening to the world, demands, of [students of this era], [the attitude of understanding different countries and respecting different culture on the basis of broad knowledge of various places of the world
Regarding the sentence you said is much better:
This modern society, which is increasingly being globalized and opening to the world, demands, of [students of this era], [the attitude of understanding different countries and respecting different culture on the basis of broad knowledge of various places of the world
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zazzexIs it correct to have the two commas at both sides of "demands, of students of this era, the attitude of.."?
Yes.
zazzex
"I demand, of president of Toyota of Japan, reduction of price of Lexus of 2008."
is it correct to use two commas here?
Yes.
"I demand, of the presiden
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Mr Wordyzazzex
"I demand, of president of Toyota of Japan, reduction of price of Lexus of 2008."
is it correct to use two commas here?
Yes.
"Yes" in the sense of "not incorrect", that is. Commas are not obligatory. If you think they make the sentence easier to parse then use them; if the structure of the
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