<p>In winter, when the ponds froze over, the villagers went skating, and the most venturesome of whom played chase and executed complicated turns on the ice. </p>
<p>the correct answer is "with the most venturesome playing chase and executing". </p>
<p>Is the original wrong? or is the alternative just better because it is shorter?</p>
<p>Thr original sentence is gramatically wrong because of the "and" there. When you have a subordinate clause, no "and"~!</p>
<p>i agree with wavvy. and he means the first and.</p>
<p>I'm still confused. Can someone give me some examples? I don't really see why the original underlined part couldn't join the first part of the sentence by "and" and become a compound sentence. Can someone explain that to me?</p>
<p>So how do yo suggest we can correct the sentance.I also tought 'and' was correct.</p>
<p>SunPenguin and Ivan_Stanchev, a simple sentence that has the same structure as the oritinal sentence could be this:
The students were working on problems, the cleverest of whom solved the most difficult ones.
The original sentence is doing this:
The students were working on problems, and the cleverest of whom solved the most difficult ones.</p>
<p>A simpler version:
I'm a girl who go to school.
the original sentence is doing this:
I'm a girl and who go to school.</p>
<p>See the problem?</p>