Timeline for Sentence analysis for "Who would it benefit you to know, or what type of person would it benefit you to know to grow your business"
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| Jan 7, 2014 at 11:12 | vote | accept | Emanuel | ||
| Jan 7, 2014 at 9:48 | history | edited | RegDwigнt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 7, 2014 at 0:03 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | Or, keeping it slightly closer to the original: “Who(m), or what type of person, should you (get to) know in order to expand your business?” | |
| Jan 6, 2014 at 23:16 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | You want to grow your business. What person, or what type of person, could help you with this? | |
| Jan 6, 2014 at 23:08 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | 'It's grammatical, but that's about the only thing you can say good about it.' Priceless. It should be a closevote reason. | |
| Jan 6, 2014 at 20:19 | answer | added | F.E. | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 6, 2014 at 19:49 | comment | added | F.E. | I think it is a great sentence. :) -- It is fine grammatically, and is often the type of sentence that results after editing. (Maybe the example sentence could end with a question mark.) | |
| Jan 6, 2014 at 19:32 | comment | added | John Lawler | It's an extremely awkward question, heavily over-synctactized (Extraposition; Conjunction Reduction; B-Equi; Wh-Question Formation extracted from two clauses down; and more). It's grammatical, but that's about the only thing you can say good about it. | |
| Jan 6, 2014 at 19:30 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jan 6, 2014 at 19:25 | answer | added | Tim Lymington | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 6, 2014 at 19:18 | answer | added | Cerberus - Reinstate Monica | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jan 6, 2014 at 19:10 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | Would it help to think about the grammatical function of "it" in this sentence? As with your example, it's the existential "it". As it "It would benefit me to know Chris Brogan, in order to grow my business". I think that's General Reference. | |
| Jan 6, 2014 at 19:04 | history | edited | Emanuel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 6, 2014 at 18:55 | history | edited | Emanuel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 6, 2014 at 18:48 | history | asked | Emanuel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |