Out of America's fascination

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pepeprepa: Legendary Member; Posts: 661; Joined: Tue Jul 08, 2008 12:58 pm; Location: France; Thanked: 48 times

by pepeprepa » Thu Aug 28, 2008 7:53 am

Out of America's fascination with things antique has grown a market for bygone styles of furniture and fixtures that is bringing back the chaise lounge, the overstuffed sofa, and the claw-footed bathtub.

A) things antique has grown a market for bygone styles of furniture and fixtures that is bringing
B) antique things has grown a market for bygone styles of furniture and fixtures that bring

Could you explain what is the difference between "things antique" and "antique things" ? I made an error due to it.

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by California4jx » Thu Aug 28, 2008 8:57 am

I think it has to do with subject preceeding an object. Antique is a subject.

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by pepeprepa » Thu Aug 28, 2008 9:15 am

I don't follow you, you speak about adjectives and nouns? Because I don't see how antique is the subject.
Answer is A

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Re: Out of America's fascination

by codesnooker » Thu Aug 28, 2008 9:18 am

pepeprepa wrote:Out of America's fascination with things antique has grown a market for bygone styles of furniture and fixtures that is bringing back the chaise lounge, the overstuffed sofa, and the claw-footed bathtub.

A) things antique has grown a market for bygone styles of furniture and fixtures that is bringing
B) antique things has grown a market for bygone styles of furniture and fixtures that bring

Could you explain what is the difference between "things antique" and "antique things" ? I made an error due to it.

I don't think that there is difference between things antique or antique things, however, only based on this, one would prefer the later one, as it sounds good to ears.

Actually there is other effective way to choose between given two choices. i.e. Subject Verb Agreement. THAT is a singular pronoun, so it should either is bringing or brings.

But in choice (B), it is mentioned as bring, the verb that should be used for plural subject.

For more information, THAT refers to MARKET, not to the ANTIQUE THINGS.

Hence choose (A).

Hope this helps...

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Re: Out of America's fascination

by anju » Thu Aug 28, 2008 9:54 am

codesnooker wrote:
pepeprepa wrote:Out of America's fascination with things antique has grown a market for bygone styles of furniture and fixtures that is bringing back the chaise lounge, the overstuffed sofa, and the claw-footed bathtub.

A) things antique has grown a market for bygone styles of furniture and fixtures that is bringing
B) antique things has grown a market for bygone styles of furniture and fixtures that bring

Could you explain what is the difference between "things antique" and "antique things" ? I made an error due to it.
I don't think that there is difference between things antique or antique things, however, only based on this, one would prefer the later one, as it sounds good to ears.

Actually there is other effective way to choose between given two choices. i.e. Subject Verb Agreement. THAT is a singular pronoun, so it should either is bringing or brings.

But in choice (B), it is mentioned as bring, the verb that should be used for plural subject.

For more information, THAT refers to MARKET, not to the ANTIQUE THINGS.

Hence choose (A).

Hope this helps...

I agree with codesnooker.

I dunn think the difference between antique things and things antique matter here... It has more to do with the verb bring

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by pepeprepa » Thu Aug 28, 2008 10:04 am

Ok thanks a lot for these points, I did not see the "that" subject, which did not help me to make the right choice.

Concerning my question, what I learned from my early lessons is that the adjective is before the noun
Ex: The beautiful cat.
That's why I don't understand why we can say "things antique" instead of "antique things".

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by jessica.ng1988 » Sat Aug 30, 2008 8:17 pm

based on the passage.
B is prefer to A,
antique is a adjective, it modify for things (n)
the subject here is fascination, not things,
it explains why has is used here .

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natzmyid: Newbie | Next Rank: 10 Posts; Posts: 1; Joined: Sun Jul 12, 2009 1:11 am

why not E

by natzmyid » Mon Aug 24, 2009 12:16 am

E doesn't sound gr8.
But is there any other reason, especially gramatically, for E to be wrong..

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by mruzeful » Mon Aug 24, 2009 10:43 am

why shouldn't we think 'fixtures that bring back the chaise, the ..' and, therefore, opt the second choice?

any explanation is much appreciated

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