Showing posts with label Modifiers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Modifiers. Show all posts

Saturday, 25 April 2009

NOTES : Nouns for phrase modifying the sentense.

Jim bought Tom , a cat , from pet shop, naming it Tom from Tom-and-Jerry series.

Subject => Jim
Phrase "naming ....." matches the action of the Noun ( Jim ).

Incorrect :
Tom , a cat , was purchased by Jim from pet shop, naming it Tom from Tom-and-Jerry series.

Subject => Tom
Phrase "naming ....." does NOT matches the action of the Noun ( Tom ).

The way to correct it is to add a Relative Pronoun to correct it:
Tom , a cat , was purchased from pet shop by Jim , who named it Tom from Tom-and-Jerry series.

Examples:
og-12-vr-1-glass-house-mountains ...

OG 12 : VR : 1 : The Glass House Mountains ...

The Glass House Mountains in Queensland, Australia, were sighted in 1770 by the English navigator Captain James Cook, by whom they were named supposedly because its sheer wet rocks glistered like glass.

C. Naming them supposedly since their
D. Who so named them supposedly because their




The subject of the sentence is "
Glass House Mountains" and not "James Cook".

Hence, modifier cannot relate if the subject is not doing the action. The naming is done by
James Cook , but James Cook is not the subject and hence cannot suite.

Note:
Since VS Because
Modifier





Monday, 13 April 2009

OGVR : VR : 73 : May's sluggish retail sales


Analysts blamed May's sluggish retail sales on unexciting merchandise as well as the weather, colder and wetter than usually in some regions, which slowed sales of barbecue grills and lawn furniture.

=> usually (adverb) cannot be used to modify the noun weather.  The correct is :
colder and wetter than USUAL in some regions ....