Timeline for What does "in" refer to?
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| Apr 18, 2016 at 19:40 | vote | accept | Anfi | ||
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| Apr 18, 2016 at 19:40 | vote | accept | Anfi | ||
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| Apr 18, 2016 at 16:08 | comment | added | GalacticCowboy | @Rathony "This is a house in which I live." | |
| Apr 18, 2016 at 15:35 | comment | added | user24743 | @GalacticCowboy There is big difference when you say something refers to something and something introduces something. I don't think the preposition necessarily introduces a subordinate clause, either as in "This is a house which I live in". Here, the in doesn't introduce anything. A preposition is not used to refer to something. It is used to express a relation to another word, phrase or clause. | |
| Apr 18, 2016 at 15:25 | comment | added | GalacticCowboy |
Although I understand overall what you're saying, I disagree with your leading statement, "in" doesn't rever to anything. It clearly does refer to something - it introduces a subordinate clause that further describes the object an interaction between two or more species.
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| Apr 18, 2016 at 14:38 | comment | added | user24743 | @DCShannon I agree. I think that's why some teachers taught students not to finish any sentence with a preposition in the past. | |
| Apr 18, 2016 at 14:37 | comment | added | DCShannon | If you pause before "one species lives in or on another species", say it really fast, and then pause before overemphasizing the last "in", it's just barely readable. "A symbiotic relationship is an interaction between two or more species -- which, one species lives in or on another species, in." | |
| Apr 18, 2016 at 13:53 | comment | added | user24743 | @DCShannon Yes, indeed. The previous prepositional phrase could cause confusion as I mentioned in my answer, but it is not that nonsensical. The two sentences have the same grammatical structure. The reason I showed the sentence with "in" at the end of the sentence is to show the in was there before it was moved before which. | |
| Apr 18, 2016 at 13:49 | comment | added | DCShannon | That sounds pretty much fine, but it doesn't have a whole prepositional phrase in there making things crazy. | |
| Apr 18, 2016 at 13:16 | comment | added | user24743 | @DCShannon I know what you mean, but out of curiosity, does "This is a house which we live in" sound non-sensical, too? Or do we have to use "This is a house in which (or where) we live"? | |
| Apr 18, 2016 at 12:46 | comment | added | DCShannon | No matter how many times I read it, the version with 'in' at the end sounds wrong and nonsensical. | |
| Apr 18, 2016 at 9:44 | vote | accept | Anfi | ||
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| Apr 18, 2016 at 9:40 | history | edited | user24743 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 18, 2016 at 9:32 | history | answered | user24743 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |