constantinusphilo
Member
- Joined
- Nov 27, 2017
- Member Type
- English Teacher
- Native Language
- Russian
- Home Country
- Russian Federation
- Current Location
- Canada
Here is a sentence from Dwight Swaine's manual Creating Characters
She was a writer of what in the trade were known as "docs" -pseudo-sociological paperbacks that pretended to be scholarly and factual and that bore titles like
Aggression, Repression and Rape, Secretaries and Sex, and The Lesbian Housewife-that kind of thing.
I think it would be more correct to write 'of what in the trade was known as "docs".
She was a writer of what in the trade were known as "docs" -pseudo-sociological paperbacks that pretended to be scholarly and factual and that bore titles like
Aggression, Repression and Rape, Secretaries and Sex, and The Lesbian Housewife-that kind of thing.
I think it would be more correct to write 'of what in the trade was known as "docs".