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Thread starter Nucleara Start date Jan 1, Nucleara Senior Member Out of this world. We are looking for the house Click to expand Copyright Senior Member Penang. If the suggestion is that We are looking for the house whose the windows are broken is the correct answer, that's wrong.

You don't use "the windows" in that case, just "windows. To me, We are looking for the house whose the windows are broken. We are looking for the house of which the windows are broken.

We are looking for the house the windows of which are broken. We are looking for the house whose windows are broken. Yichen Senior Member China. Is sentence1 really wrong? Could someone tell me why? Many thanks. Last edited: Jan 4, Copyright said:.

EStjarn Senior Member Spanish. Nucleara said:. Yichen said:. Hello everyone! I am pretty late, but I would like to contribute with a further question.

Following the EStjarn's argument, if " the house of which the windows are broken " is wrong from a grammatical point of view, why is it correct to say: We are looking for the branch on which our cat was sleeping. The bungalows of which the roofs are leaking ought to The bungalows, the roofs of which are leaking, ought to..

And, what is the difference and similarity between using of which and whose? Thanks in advance. Original Post. David, Moderator Moderator. The bungalows, the roofs of which are leaking, ought to.

Would you take a look at the following? The bungalows of which the roofs are leaking ought to.. At the site:He's written a book of which I've forgotten the name. Hello, Nima, OK, it seems I was mistaken. The phrase the bungalows of which the roofs are leaking is grammatical. It is the LAST construction that anyone with an ear for the English language would use to express the idea you mean to express.

You are the only person on the World Wide Web who has written the bungalows of which the roofs. It was not the sentence He's written a book of which I've forgotten the name that convinced me that I am obligated, against all my sensibilities, to say that your bungalows example is technically grammatical. A book of which I've forgotten the name relates to I've forgotten the name of it. That's a different case: the bungalows of which the roofs are leaking does not relate to the roofs are leaking of them , but instead to the roofs of them are leaking.

Having looked into the matter, I see that that construction, which is extremely uncommon, has been officially endorsed as grammatical: "The investigation of which the results will soon be published. In conclusion, your example is savagely nonnative but grammatical. First, I do really appreciate all your priceless explanations.

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