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#2 (permalink) Thu Sep 14, 2006 9:03 am Expression: "...come to help celebrate..." |
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#3 (permalink) Thu Sep 14, 2006 9:33 am Ghosts who had come |
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Tom, you are right, the sentence should read
... with ghosts who had come to help celebrate...
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#4 (permalink) Thu Sep 14, 2006 13:05 pm Expression: "...come to help celebrate..." |
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. Yes, a nonfinite (past participial) clause modifying ghosts:
...crowded with familiar ghosts come to help celebrate her birthday.
... and this is my brother, just returned from Iraq. (note that this one is nonrestrictive)
... Please put it on the table covered with the green cloth. . _________________ Native English teacher at Mister Micawber's |
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#5 (permalink) Mon Oct 02, 2006 5:36 am Expression: "...come to help celebrate..." |
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A lot of thanks to everybody!
Just one more question!
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| and this is my brother, just returned from Iraq. (note that this one is nonrestrictive) |
Keeping this sentence in mind if I wrote the original sentence this way, would it be OK?
1- The large ballroom was crowded with familiar ghosts, come to help celebrate her birthday.
I mean to ask about the use of the comma after ghosts!
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#6 (permalink) Mon Oct 02, 2006 5:48 am Expression: "...come to help celebrate..." |
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. Yes, the comma is OK there, too. Without the comma, it defines the ghosts; with the comma, it is added information about them. . _________________ Native English teacher at Mister Micawber's |
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