Comments on: Missing the good parts http://noncompositional.com/2006/03/missing-the-good-parts/ Thu, 13 Jan 2011 01:44:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Chris W. http://noncompositional.com/2006/03/missing-the-good-parts/comment-page-1/#comment-77 Chris W. Fri, 10 Mar 2006 06:22:14 +0000 http://noncompositional.com/2006/03/missing-the-good-parts/#comment-77 <p>I don't think I did a good job covering <em>everything</em> that's wrong with this sentence, did I?</p> <p><i>Which</i> with a phrasal antecedent (appositive <i>which</i>) doesn't shock me much here (as one of my French instructors used to say). Though I guess there's some infelicity stemming from the subject of the which-clause being a potential subject of the matrix clause, in your reconstructed version: the <em>movie</em> stays faithful to the short story, as opposed to some quality of the movie staying faithful to the short story.</p> I don’t think I did a good job covering everything that’s wrong with this sentence, did I?

Which with a phrasal antecedent (appositive which) doesn’t shock me much here (as one of my French instructors used to say). Though I guess there’s some infelicity stemming from the subject of the which-clause being a potential subject of the matrix clause, in your reconstructed version: the movie stays faithful to the short story, as opposed to some quality of the movie staying faithful to the short story.

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