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Who is To Blame? "Who is to blame?"
Is the sentence missing some nouns? Would "who is the person to blame?" be the corrected version?
- 01-Sep-2011, 17:20 #2
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Teacher Re: Who is To Blame? No.
Originally Posted by Samantha293 
- 02-Sep-2011, 15:23 #3
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Teacher Re: Who is To Blame? 
But that isn't to say the longer version is wrong; 'the person' is just unnecessary. (I think Bhai reacted so positively (that is, negatively) because the expression 'the corrected version' suggests that the original was wrong - which it's not. 
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- 02-Sep-2011, 17:13 #4
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Teacher Re: Who is To Blame? Yes, that's what I meant. Originally Posted by BobK But that isn't to say the longer version is wrong; 'the person' is just unnecessary. (I think Bhai reacted to positively (that is, negatively) because the expression 'the corrected version' suggests that the original was wrong - which it's not.
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