Which is grammatically correct to write?
They stayed at a grand hotel last fall, which was really costly.
Last fall, they stayed at a grand hotel, which was really costly.
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They are both OK, but why do you want the relative clause to be of the supplementary (non-defining) kind?– BillJNov 22, 2017 at 18:26
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BillJ@ Because I had some doubts about the correctness of the relative clause in the first sentence. Do you think the relative clauses in the two sentences are sematically different?– Mido MidoNov 22, 2017 at 22:20
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They have identical meanings. I was curious about why you put a comma before "which", thus making the relative clauses supplementary (non-defining).– BillJNov 23, 2017 at 15:47
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Because the noun is modified by an adjective, thus we talk a specific hotel that is luxurious and expensive– Mido MidoNov 24, 2017 at 16:28
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The adjective has no bearing on things: You could just as easily say: "We stayed at a (grand) hotel which was really costly" (no comma).– BillJNov 24, 2017 at 16:35
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My preferred option is definitely #2, since its not the fall that's costly but the hotel.
