<p>Although the Phoenicians were amoung the best navigators of their time, as shipbiolders they were not equal of the Egyptians.</p>
<p>The economy suffered through a recession that was equal, if not worse than, the recession that had developed a decade before.</p>
<p>The underlined parts are wrong. Can someone tell me what the correct form of the first one should be?
For the second one, I think it should be "was equal to", am I right?</p>
<p>Thank You</p>
<p>Another 2...
In a world that the rate of technological and social change accelerates frighteningly, change itself often seems to be the only constant.
"In a world that" is wrong. Why?</p>
<p>George Thornton Emmons was one of the handful of ethographers who comitted their life to studying the Tlingit Culture of the Northwest Coast.</p>
<p>"Their life" is the right answer, but I'm just wondering is there really nothing wrong with "commiting someone's life to studying"?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>1) Were not equal to
2) Was equal to
3) In a world in which
4) It's an idiom. There's no grammatical argument against it being correct.</p>
<p>Thank you for your response!
Is there a grammarical reason why we can't say "in a world that"?</p>
<p>ironically most of the question u posted are the ones i done recently or have posted on cc forums.
1 yeah idioms, equal to,<br>
2. if u delete that middle phrase,, u can see that "was equal recession..." doesn't make sense at all.
3. In a world.. i posted this before, i guess people say 'world' is a place, it's like one of those usages for "which" and "that" im not too sure how exactly u use " in which", but there was another problem in bb "In cities in which..." i guess "in which" fits in when 'which' n 'that' doesn't .
4. i also posted this =/ should be "their lives", though some people claim 'his life', i don think his life is correct.
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