RonPurewal Wrote:Thanks Ron!
But in some questions wherein I found the "one that" usage redundant are using the same concept which this question used. I mean to say like the above sentence falls apart if we remove "one" from it then can you give me some simple example sentence wherein removing "one" will not affect the sentence.
Thanks!
GeeMate.
hmm?
whether you want "one" is going to depend on exactly what is being compared - i.e., on
parallelism.
if you need "one" to maintain this parallelism, then you should include "one". if you don't need it, then don't use it.
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i don't have any questions immediately available in which you can just remove the "one" and not worry about it.
in fact, it appears that
you have some such questions; after all, you said:
But in some questions wherein I found the "one that" usage redundant
...so, apparently,
you already have some such questions. do you? if so, i'd love to see which examples you're talking about.
Dear Ron,
you asked for example, here it is, please clarify:
9. Astronomers at the Palomar Observatory have discovered a distant supernova explosion, one that they believe is a type previously unknown to science.
(A) that they believe is
(B) that they believe it to be
(C) they believe that it is of
(D) they believe that is
(E) they believe to be of
Choice E is best. The pronoun that in A and B should be deleted, since the pronoun one is sufficient to introduce the modifier and the sentence is more fluid without that. In B and C, it and that it are intrusive and ungrammatical: the idiom is "believe x to be y." In the context of this sentence, the infini¬tive to be is more appropriate than the limited present-tense is in referring to an event that occurred long ago but has been discovered only recently. Finally, A, B, and D lack o/and so illogically equate this particular explosion with the whole class of explosions to which it belongs: it is not a type but possibly one of a type.
above is a Q from OG 10 and offical answer.
why is "one that' not ok here?