Preserve them in a good condition
A. I contend that the anxieties resulting from a compulsion to look after the good internal objects, to preserve them in a good condition.
Q1) Is sentence A correct English?
Q2) Does this prepositional phrase "in a good condition" modify this to-infinitive "to preserve"?
I'd say yes to both questions, but I'm not 100% clear.
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A. I contend that the anxieties resulting from a compulsion to look after the good internal objects, to preserve them in a good condition. Q1) Is sentence A correct English?
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A. I contend that the anxieties resulting from a compulsion to look after the good internal objects, to preserve them in a good condition.
Q1) Is sentence A correct English?
No.Your main clause is not complete.
Here is a complete sentence.
eg I contend that the anxieties resulting from a compulsion to look after the good internal objects
0fire1Q1) Is sentence A correct English?
No. There is no verb in the 'that' clause.
I contend that the anxieties [resulting from ...] ___?___.
What about the anxieties which result from those things? Nothing is said about them.
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