Monday, February 2, 2015

syntactic analysis - Prepositions in a compound sentence




Following Martha's advise I am splitting up a question Compound sentences, the punctuation and mooore.



Consider the following sentence:




One of the items that needed a further development was a research on child nodes of a story representing its sub categories being updated the moment the list of sub categories is changed through edit page for stories.




Did I miss any prepositions obligatory for sentences that complex?




If you feel like it's not the right way to use English anyway, please see questions



Constructing compound sentences



and



How to rephrase a sentence?.


Answer



Grammatically this sentence parses. No missed prepositions. There are two indefinite articles that might be superfluous:





One of the items that needed further development was research on child nodes...




And yes, I do think that this sentence needs rephrasing (rule of brevity). See my answers on the corresponding questions.


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