Re: English Language Grammar

ad <ajitsdeshpande@xxxxxxxxx> wrote
I have a question.

A.]
Consider this statement below:-
He played music on the Mp3 player in his car, which was newly
purchased.

Now what connotation does this above sentence give , does it mean:
1.) that the MP3 player is newly purchased
Or
2.) that the car is newly purchased

It should mean that the car was newly purchased.

Now how do i change punctuation of this sentence to get above two
different connotations:

You can't do it that way. English is a word-order language, so you
have to move the "newly purchased" phrase in front of the "mp3
player" phrase, e.g.,

"He played music on the newly purchased mp3 player in his car".

What arrangement of the pronouns and the semicolon, give which
kind of connotation.

There is no such arrangement, and there is no semicolon in that
sentence, only a comma.

B.]
Under which Part of Speech of English Language grammer is this
kind of grammar covered ?

Modifiers, but a modifier is not a "part of speech" in the same way
that an adjective and an adverb are. Phrases can also be modifiers.

--
Franke: EFL teacher & medical editor
Native speaker of American English; posting from Taiwan.
"When you have to depend on those who used to depend on you, it's
time to say goodbye." Anymouse.


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