Mona
would you help me to understand this sentence?
are these sentences the same?
1- this is partly because of the lengthening summer season brought about by climate change.
2- this is partly because of summer season which is lengthening brought about by climate change.
2018년 9월 15일 오후 1:24
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Both of them have the same meaning, but only sentence #1 is grammatically correct.
2018년 9월 15일
1
I think that brought about is redundant, and lengthening must be lenthy .
This is partly because of the lengthy summer season and climate change.
2018년 9월 15일
1
Yes, they are more or less the same. I would change them a little bit, however:
1- this is partly because of the lengthening summer season, brought about by climate change.
2- this is partly because of the summer season, which is lengthening as a result of climate change.
I've used the coma to show that I'm giving some extra information about the summer season.
2018년 9월 15일
1
The first is not well written, the second is badly written.
Climate change has brought about a lengthening of the summer season, i.e. in your sentences 'lengthening' should be the subject of 'brought about'.
The correct version would therefore be: "this is partly because of the lengthening of the summer season brought about by climate change."
Your version 2 is nonsense: the summer season existed long before climate change began, therefore it cannot have been brought about by it.
Your version 1 is half way between nonsense and correct, but if read quickly enough it makes sense.
2018년 9월 15일
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