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Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2024 05:06:45 +0000
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by: navi - Tue, 30 Apr 2024 05:06 UTC

1) Which is the best of their albums?
2) I was listening to ABC, which is the best of their albums?

Are these sentences grammatical and meaningful?

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by: Hibou - Tue, 30 Apr 2024 05:24 UTC

Le 30/04/2024 à 06:06, navi a écrit :
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> 1) Which is the best of their albums?
> 2) I was listening to ABC, which is the best of their albums?
>
> Are these sentences grammatical and meaningful?

(1) is fine.

(2) is a run-on sentence.

I was listening to ABC. Which is the best of their albums?

I was listening to ABC, and wondering: which is the best of their albums?

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by: Athel Cornish-Bowden - Tue, 30 Apr 2024 06:26 UTC

On 2024-04-30 05:24:38 +0000, Hibou said:

> Le 30/04/2024 à 06:06, navi a écrit :
>>
>> 1) Which is the best of their albums?
>> 2) I was listening to ABC, which is the best of their albums?
>>
>> Are these sentences grammatical and meaningful?
>
> (1) is fine.
>
> (2) is a run-on sentence.
>
> I was listening to ABC. Which is the best of their albums?
>
> I was listening to ABC, and wondering: which is the best of their albums?

I was interpreting as a clumsy way of saying "I was listening to ABC,
the best of their albums." However, the ? makes your interpretaion more
likely.

I assume ABC is the name of a group, rather than the American
Broadcasting Company.
If the latter, does it produce albums?

--
Athel -- French and British, living in Marseilles for 37 years; mainly
in England until 1987.

Subject	Author
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