Timeline for Non-standard sentence construction with "there is no"
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| Nov 7, 2015 at 14:17 | comment | added | Hot Licks | It's a 3-item list, not a parenthetical clause. | |
| Feb 10, 2015 at 15:30 | comment | added | user109070 | I have two problems with "there is no one, or five, or even ten such failures which, once removed, would boost the development of the sub-sector". First, correct me if I am wrong, logically and gramatically, when we say "there is NO...", we mean it does not exist. I cannot think of any instance when it could mean it exists but the number is higher etc. Second, I cannot comprehend how failures could boost anything. Their removal could, but not they in themselves as it currently follows from the extract "such failures which, once removed, would boost the development of the sub-sector". | |
| Feb 9, 2015 at 17:13 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | The fact that failures is plural here disqualifies the classical parenthesis analysis. | |
| Feb 9, 2015 at 16:51 | review | Low quality posts | |||
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| Feb 9, 2015 at 16:32 | history | answered | Leni Nawocam | CC BY-SA 3.0 |