suprunp
Senior Member
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- Apr 27, 2011
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1) The council's relative independence of the government means it can negotiate its own agreements.
(Oxford Collocations Dictionary)
2) The independence of the government means its [the government's] decisions won't always conform to those of the president.
(My own piece of writing)
Does my sentence 2) sound OK?
If it does does it mean that
"The council was accustomed to the independence of the government."
is quite ambiguous?
Or would you expect 'to it's independence' if the author meant 'to the council's independence ~ 'the council was accustomed to the fact that it was independent of the government' rather than 'the council was accustomed to the fact that the government was an independent body'?
My apologies if my post is quite ambiguous itself, I've tried my best.
Thanks.
(Oxford Collocations Dictionary)
2) The independence of the government means its [the government's] decisions won't always conform to those of the president.
(My own piece of writing)
Does my sentence 2) sound OK?
If it does does it mean that
"The council was accustomed to the independence of the government."
is quite ambiguous?
Or would you expect 'to it's independence' if the author meant 'to the council's independence ~ 'the council was accustomed to the fact that it was independent of the government' rather than 'the council was accustomed to the fact that the government was an independent body'?
My apologies if my post is quite ambiguous itself, I've tried my best.
Thanks.