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Member Posts: 693
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Which are correct:
1-The company whose going broke caused a lot of legal debates belonged to him. 2-The contract whose drawing up took a month was signed yesterday. 3-The neighbour whose dancing about caused a lot of noise every night was told to stop. 4-The man whose beating up his neighbour caused a scandal left his appartment. 5-The man whose beating up of his neighbour caused a scandal left his appartment. This message has been edited. Last edited by: navi, |
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Member Posts: 15202
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The first four are all correct, although they all seem a bit heavy.
The last is not quite correct. If we have 'of,'l we'd need 'the' before the gerund. We can't have 'the' here because we have 'whose.' |
