Arti
The Kennedy family were considered the closest thing America had to royalty. Its members WHO ELECTED to public office all served as Democrats Why there isn't the passive form after "WHO"? "elected" is the past participle of the verb "elect".....
Jan 12, 2024 10:13 PM
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Hi Arti.... ok... that sentence is very clearly and obviously missing a word. The sentence is NOT correctly written to begin with, so it's totally understandable why you're confused. The first sentence isn't perfect, but the grammar is 'acceptable'. Second sentence OUGHT to read = THE members who WERE elected to public office, all served as democrats. (And I absolutely would not capitalize 'democrat' because it's a common noun). 'Its' should be 'the', because 'a family' in English, are people, and not things. It's kinda rude to call a person an 'it' or a bunch of people 'its'. haha.
January 12, 2024
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Your second sentence is impossible to parse. A sentence needs to have a subject and a verb but in this sentence it is impossible to determine either one. Is the subject "who" or "members"? Is the verb "elected" or "served"?. Is "who" a subject or an object? If it were intended to be an object, it would have to be "whom". I am guessing that you intended to say this: "Among its members, those elected to public office served as Democrats" "Elected" is a past participle working as an adjective. The clause "elected to public office" acts as an adjective to modify "those". The verb in your sentence is "served" and the subject is "those".
January 13, 2024
ok!!!! Thank you!!!
January 12, 2024
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