Re: English Language Grammar

ad <ajitsdeshpande@xxxxxxxxx> wrote
On Dec 14, 4:01 pm, cybercypher <cybercyphe...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
ad <ajitsdeshpa...@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.

Hello Cybercyper,
Thanks for the reply. But i still had a feeling that In the
sentence below:

He played music on the Mp3 player in his car, which was newly
purchased.

by just using a different conjuction (in this case "which") it
gives a different meaning.
e.g.

He played music on the Mp3 player in his car that was newly
purchased. => This means the Mp3 player is newly purchased.
Correct me if i am worng.

Sorry, but you're wrong. The use of "which" versus "that" or making
the relative clause defining or not doesn't change the meaning in
this case. The realtive pronoun always refers to the closest noun
phrase behind it, which is, in this case, the car, not the stereo.


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