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Mar 01st 2012 12:08 noun-selection relative-selection
(A) Nothing taught me more than my last trip, during which I experienced a lot of new things.

(B) Nothing taught me more than my last travel, during which I experienced a lot of new things.

(C) Nothing taught me more than my last trip during which I experienced a lot of new things.


Are these sentences all correct?
And if (C) is correct, what do you think is the difference in meaning between (A) and (C)?
I'd appreciate your opinions!
EnglishTeacherOnline
Mar 01st 2012 12:18
  • (B) Nothing taught me more than my last travel, during which I experienced a lot of new things.

  • (B) Nothing taught me more than my last travel, during which I experienced a lot of new things.

 
  • (C) Nothing taught me more than my last trip during which I experienced a lot of new things.

  • (C) Nothing taught me more than my last trip, during which I experienced a lot of new things.

 
B is not correct. The only difference I saw between A and C is one ",". There is no difference in meaning.

We don't say, "I went for a travel", "during my last travel", etc.
tony
Mar 01st 2012 12:19
  • (B) Nothing taught me more than my last travel, during which I experienced a lot of new things.

  • (B) Nothing taught me more than my last travels, during which I experienced a lot of new things. [Alternative: "... my last period of travel" Both of these are less natural than "trip". Travel is usually used as a non-count noun, and almost never used in its singular form when it is used as a count noun.]

 
(C) is extremely unlikely. What "my last trip during which I experienced a lot of new things" means is "the most recent of those trips I have taken which satisfy the condition that I experienced a lot of new things during them". In other words, it is not necessarily the last trip you took-- if you didn't experience a lot of new things on either of your last two trips, for example, it means some trip before those last two. If I saw this sentence on a student paper, I would unhesitatingly insist on the comma.
Mar 01st 2012 12:22 tony
I disagree with EnglishTeacherOnline-san about (C). The comma changes a restrictive clause into a non-restrictive clause, which does indeed change the meaning. The meaning of the sentence with the clause "during which I experienced a lot of new things" as a restrictive clause is almost certainly not the intended meaning, so I would say that the sentence is wrong without the comma.
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