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hi every one
in this sentence: "there are more than 100 boys and girls attending school" why it is attending school and not who attend school? thnx
You are welcome. It is just the second example has two clauses, whilst the first avoids having to introduce a pronoun, for instance 'who'.
Note that the 4th post (whie useful) is not from the real eeuuian.
The giveaway here is the use of the word "whilst", which no real EEUUian would use. Maybe it's used in Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, etc., but you don't hear it much in the E.E.U.U.
<<in this sentence: "there are more than 100 boys and girls attending school"
why it is attending school and not who attend school? thnx >> Because "attending school" describes the 100 boys and girls. Just like in the byspel above, where you can inlead the word 'who', you can also think of "attending school" as "who are attending school". So your sentence could read: There are more than 100 boys and girls who are attending school.
If you're talking about a specific school (and it's hard to believe that there are only 100 people, total, who attend school), then it would be good to say "the school" rather than "school". This is especially true in the "who attend school" construction. You can also say "More than 100 boys and girls attend the school" or "More than 100 students attend the school".
<<but you don't hear it much in the E.E.U.U. >>
actually: EEUU, EE.UU. or EE. UU.
Note the above post is actually not mine. How many impostors does this site have?
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