Reply
Fri 6 Mar, 2015 09:08 am
Hello, I would like to find out if the following sentence is grammatically correct.
" Last winter Victor got such a serious infection that it took him two months to recover from illness."
Somebody told me that it is grammatically correct if 'his' or 'the' precedes "illness" . Is it really so?
@Kamila,
yes...it's preferred but the other choice can be grammatically acceptable too.
How about:
Last winter Victor got such a serious infection that it took him two months to recover.
Your sentence has enough context clues in it that you don't need to add "his illness" at the end.
@PUNKEY,
Quote:Your sentence has enough context clues in it that you don't need to add "his illness" at the end.
Yeah, it would actually be a little redundant at that point, eh? If I was going to "add" something, it would probably be the word "the" or "that" instead of "his."
Stumble It!
Tweet This
Bookmark on Delicious
Share on Facebook
Share on MySpace