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OrcaDeen Posted 18 years ago
Essay & Composition Writing

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00is the following sentence correct grammatically and linguisticly and is there any other mistakes?02br
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00please, comment on the use of the relative pronoun" of which"02br
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01b00Copious unsigned complaints00, 00I knew00, 00were lodged against him at the Country Council, the establishment 00of which00 was accompanied by the proliferation of such anonymously penned complaints.00 02b02br
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00 02b 02br 02br 01font 01b 00In terms of grammar, this seems acceptable. 02b 02font 02br 02br 01font 01b 00Now, let's consider the meaning. I find it hard to grasp without more context.

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1font01b00Hi,02b02font02br
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01b00Copious unsigned complaints00, 00I knew00, 00were lodged against him at the Country Council, the establishment 00of which00 was accompanied by the proliferation of such anonymously01font00-02font00penned complaint
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00Fisrt, thanks so much for your being helpful02br
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00second, i'll try to answer your inquiries about the meaning of what i have written before02br
00But, please note that it was a short piece of a story written in Arabic and as a translator i translated it into English .Since I'm not a native speaker of English, I resorted to ask trustwo
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0Hi again,02br
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01font00"Copious unsigned complaints, I knew, were lodged against him at the Country Council. Following the council's establishment , the number of such anonymously-penned complaints swelled."02font02br
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00This is OK, except for one thing. You speak of the Council, and then of the Council's estab
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0I'm quite with you that the order is not ok.But, I have an inquiry02br
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00would not it be vague to repeat the word council? it may seem as if there are two councils02br
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00am i right?0-
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01cite10OrcaDeen12cite10I'm quite with you that the order is not ok.But, I have an inquiry12br
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10would not it be vague to repeat the word council? it may seem as if there are two councils12br
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10am i right?12br
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10Try this,02br
00"Following the
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0And do not think that ,in your correction , the meaning changes since : the piece of information expressed by "I know" is the fact that (complaints are lodged )and not that ( following the council's establishment complaints swelled)02br
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00especially this is a literary translation and i fear to miss with it since the writer may intendes something while he choses the ord
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0Thank you for your interest to share us02br
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00But, your sentence may mean that the main concern of the topic is the council while it is really not02br
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00And by deleting the preposition "at", this ignores that the complaints were lodged to that council02br
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00Also, the past perfect tense in "had been" may express a very fa
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