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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
3:41 AM
the difference between a fly and a bird is that a bird can fly, but a fly can't bird
 
AIQ
AIQ
4:11 AM
o.0
 
Anonymous
@AIQ The phrase "a proposal that is discussed in a meeting and on which a vote is taken" seems grammatical to me. It's a coordination of a proposal that is discussed in a meeting and a proposal on which a vote is taken.
 
Anonymous
A proposal is discussed in a meeting, and a vote is taken on that proposal.
 
Anonymous
The whole thing has the form of a noun phrase, so it's not a complete sentence on its own, but it is a phrase.
 
Anonymous
Now, "a proposal that is discussed in a meeting and a vote is taken on it" doesn't seem so good. A vote is taken on it has the form of a main clause, not a relative clause, so it can't modify a proposal.
 
Anonymous
So you end up with a noun phrase coordinated with a clause, which is kind of weird.
 
Anonymous
4:14 AM
In your other answer, you say:
 
Anonymous
> You could use "turn to" though.
 
Anonymous
It's true that turn to is grammatical and meaningful, but I don't think you'd usually use it in that situation. Most typically, turn to page X is used by a teacher in a classroom, telling a student to turn to that page. You don't usually use that phrase when you're asking someone to tell you what page something is on.
 
Anonymous
So that's not wrong, but since you don't mention the meaning isn't entirely appropriate in that context, it might confuse the reader.
 
Anonymous
I also noticed you wrote "In which page can I find . . . ?" Usually, a page is thought of as a surface with words on that surface, so we usually use the preposition on.
 
Anonymous
Those are the first things that jumped out at me when I looked over the answers in your meta post.
 
Anonymous
4:17 AM
I don't know why they were downvoted, since I wasn't the one who downvoted them.
 
AIQ
AIQ
@snailcar Thank you very much for taking a look at it. Snailcar, "Which page should I turn to?" is not common usage and may in fact be wrong. You are right. It is not used in a question. I only found 10 unreliable google hits. Downvote justified.
Yes absolutely - it should be "on".
So, I felt "a proposal that is discussed in a meeting and on which a vote is taken" was incorrect because of the use of the indefinite article. I was thinking of a context where the speaker knew at least something about the proposal and the meeting. In that case I thought we should use "the".
But Jason Bassford said the same thing as you, he too said it is grammatical.
 
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
4:41 AM
When you are reading a book you are literally staring at a dead 🌲 tree and hallucinating
 
AIQ
AIQ
5:02 AM
@snailcar Thank you very much, I edited one of the answer, and updated the meta question
 
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
Word of the day: ulnar dimelia
 
 
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M.A.R.
M.A.R.
7:12 AM
@CowperKettle . . . whoa
 
AIQ
AIQ
7:26 AM
I googled ulnar dimelia
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
7:48 AM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Email in answer (77): Not expect any result OR results? by RosmitaMita10 on ell.SE
 
AIQ
AIQ
8:28 AM
This is wrong, right? "Some more examples: If they get married, the day will have come.... If they got married, the day would have come... If they had got married, the day would have come...."
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
@AIQ The latter two are correct, but I think the first one isn't
Which means I can't make the tense work, not that it necessarily doesn't
Had gotten
 
AIQ
AIQ
@M.A.R. Shouldn't it be "If they get married, the day will come..." for the first, and "If they got married, the day would come ..." for the second?
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
@AIQ The first one, yes, the second one, hmm, the rules are a bit fuzzy there
 
AIQ
AIQ
9:14 AM
Can I run something by you @M.A.R. "If they got married, the day would come when they would be bored" and "If they had got married, the day would have come when they would have been bored" - These are my constructs. The original is "If they had got married, the day would have come when they got bored". I have a feeling that the bold "got" in the original is incorrect.
 
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
9:36 AM
An English teacher decides to quit. He says: Headmaster, I quit. I'm a terrible, terrible English teacher. I don't do simple. I'm not in the least being progressive. And, frankly, I have never been perfect.
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
12:56 PM
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"Us Tareyton smokers would rather fight than switch!" is the enduring slogan that appeared in magazine, newspaper, and television advertisements for Tareyton cigarettes from 1963 until 1981. It was the American Tobacco Company's most visible advertising campaign in the 1960s and 1970s. == Beginnings == The slogan was created by James Jordan of the BBDO advertising agency. The first print advertisement appeared in Life magazine on October 11, 1963. The advertisements would appear solely in print between 1963 and 1966. In 1966, the first television advertisements with the slogan aired.The target...
 

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