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Discussion Groups / English Usage / July 2009only when ... that
Is there anything wrong with the following sentence: "Only when you are in the vicinity of the other person that you have the right to make that demand." Thanks On 01 Jul 2009, fyfpoon@gmail.com wrote > Is there anything wrong with the following sentence: > > "Only when you are in the vicinity of the other person that you > have the right to make that demand." It has to be either "It is only when...that you have the right", or "Only when you are...do you have the right". "Only when you are...that you have right" doesn't work at all in any form of English I'm aware of.  SignatureCheers, Harvey CanEng and BrEng, indiscriminately mixed > On 01 Jul 2009, fyfp...@gmail.com wrote > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > It has to be either "It is only when...that you have the right", or > "Only when you are...do you have the right". I understand the first one but it seems the second one is a question. No? > "Only when you are...that you have right" doesn't work at all in any > form of English I'm aware of. > > -- > Cheers, Harvey > CanEng and BrEng, indiscriminately mixed On 02 Jul 2009, fyfpoon@gmail.com wrote > On 7ÔÂ1ÈÕ, ÏÂÎç4ʱ24·Ö, HVS <use...@REMOVETHISwhhvs.co.uk> > wrote: [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > I understand the first one but it seems the second one is a > question. No? No; it perhaps looks that way because "do you have the right", in isolation, looks like a question rather than part of the sentence. The whole of my re-write is: "Only when you are in the vicinity of the other person do you have the right to make that demand." (It would be a question if the initial "only" was omitted -- it modifies the whole sentence, I think.) SignatureCheers, Harvey CanEng and BrEng, indiscriminately mixed Quoth "fyfpoon@gmail.com" <fyfpoon@gmail.com>, and I quote: >Is there anything wrong with the following sentence: > >"Only when you are in the vicinity of the other person that you have >the right to make that demand." No, you would need to reword it slightly in one of two ways: "Only when you are in the vicinity of the other person do you have the right to make that demand." "It is only when you are in the vicinity of the other person that you have the right to make that demand." SignatureJames >Is there anything wrong with the following sentence: > >"Only when you are in the vicinity of the other person that you have >the right to make that demand." Replace "that" with "do". XOR put "It is" before "only". SignatureSteve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa Web: http://hayesfam.bravehost.com/stevesig.htm Blog: http://methodius.blogspot.com E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk On 1 July, 09:16, "fyfp...@gmail.com" <fyfp...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there anything wrong with the following sentence: > > "Only when you are in the vicinity of the other person that you have > the right to make that demand." > > Thanks My preferred version is more germanic:- "Only when you are in the vicinity of the other person, have you the right to make that demand" |
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