a. I like the new method to learn five languages simultaneously.
b. I like their new method to learn five languages simultaneously.
c. I like the new method which allows you to learn five languages simultaneously.
d. I like their new method which allows you to learn five languages simultaneously.
In which case there was/they had another method to learn five languages simultaneously before?
Many thanks.
Hi, Azz,
@azz posted:a. I like the new method to learn five languages simultaneously.
b. I like their new method to learn five languages simultaneously.
c. I like the new method which allows you to learn five languages simultaneously.
d. I like their new method which allows you to learn five languages simultaneously.
I think they are all ambiguous depending on whether the novelty is attributed to "the/their method to learn/which allows you to learn five languages simultaneously" (there was a former method, or there were former methods to learn five languages simultaneously that worked differently) or to the possibility of learning five languages simultaneously by means of the new method (the old one/s did not allow it). The two ideas could perhaps be more easily understood by enclosing the phrases in question between brackets:
- I like the/their new [method to learn/which allows you to learn five languages simultaneously]. (Of all such methods, this is a new one.)
- I like the/their new method [to learn/which allows you to learn five languages simultaneously]. (Of all language learning methods, this a new one that, unlike the previous ones, offers the possibility of learning five languages at a time.)
