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dido4
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 Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 1:50 am Post subject: Most of |
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1.Most of the students in Class 111 are boys.
Q:Can we say this:
Most of the students are boys in Class 111.
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2.Two of the books on the desk are interesting.
Q:Can we say this:
Two of the books are interesting on the desk . |
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Mister Micawber
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| Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 2:54 am Post subject: |
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This has been answered HERE.
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LucentShade
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| Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 7:00 am Post subject: Re: Most of |
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| dido4 wrote: |
| Two of the books are interesting on the desk . |
...but if you move them off the desk, they won't be interesting...
That's how I understand the sentence if it's written in that order. The problem is that the prepositional phrase "on the desk" receives natural stress, because it identifies which books are the topic of the sentence. Putting it after "interesting" links "on the desk" to "interesting" in the listener's mind. This doesn't make sense, because there's no reason that the books won't be interesting if they aren't on the desk. |
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