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Grammar
Participle Question
But unknown to Kate, her neighbor Joanne, had come up with the same idea a couple of weeks earlier.
The above sentence is giving my Korean co-teacher trouble. He wants to shoehorn the sentence into one of the forms below, but we were having trouble doing it. I initially thought that the subject of unknown was "the same idea," while my co-teacher thinks it is "Joanne." Just based on reading the sentence I see the second comma as unnecessary, but I was no help in converting the sentence to one of the forms below. Can anyone offer some insight?
(Being) Written in plain English, the book has many readers.
All the money (having been) lost, we have to change our plan.
The above sentence is giving my Korean co-teacher trouble. He wants to shoehorn the sentence into one of the forms below, but we were having trouble doing it. I initially thought that the subject of unknown was "the same idea," while my co-teacher thinks it is "Joanne." Just based on reading the sentence I see the second comma as unnecessary, but I was no help in converting the sentence to one of the forms below. Can anyone offer some insight?
(Being) Written in plain English, the book has many readers.
All the money (having been) lost, we have to change our plan.
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Hi, But unknown to Kate, her neighbor Joanne, had come up with the same idea a couple of weeks earlier. The above sentence is giving my Korean co-teacher trouble. He wants to shoehorn the sentence into one of the forms below, but we were having trouble doing it.
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Hi,
But unknown to Kate, her neighbor Joanne, had come up with the same idea a couple of weeks earlier.
The above sentence is giving my Korean co-teacher trouble. He wants to shoehorn the sentence into one of the forms below, but we were having trouble doing it. I initially thought that the subject of unknown was "the same idea," while my co-teacher thinks it is "Joanne." Ju
But unknown to Kate, her neighbor Joanne, had come up with the same idea a couple of weeks earlier.
The above sentence is giving my Korean co-teacher trouble. He wants to shoehorn the sentence into one of the forms below, but we were having trouble doing it. I initially thought that the subject of unknown was "the same idea," while my co-teacher thinks it is "Joanne." Ju
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