...there are problems to tackle which we have to take new measures.

[Mehrgan]

Hi,

I was studying some grammar points on "prepositional phrases" and "relative clauses", and I was wondering if the following sentences are grammatically correct:

1. "...there are some standards according to which users have to submit..."
2. "...they have faced serious obstacles to overcome which they are advised to..."
3. "...there are some conventional standards in order to improve which new measures have to be adopted."
4. "The quality of our life can depend on our leisure time for which there seems to be a growing trend for many to go for extreme experiences..."

I think the way I started the sentences with "... may be irritating but I just had trouble making complete meaningful sentences. I just needed to give you a limited context where which phrases are used. If the second and third sentences are correct, then can you give me the grammar title I can search and study?

 

[Barque]

From the ellipses, it appears all four examples are part of a longer sentence. Why don't you give us the entire sentence if you have it?

Examples 1 and 2 aren't complete sentences by themselves, but could work as part of a longer sentence.

Example 3 is grammatical as a stand-alone sentence and could also form part of a longer sentence.

Example 4 is grammatical as a stand-alone sentence but the "for which" part sounds off to me. If it's part of a longer sentence, please give us the full sentence.

 

[Tarheel]

Do you know what an obstacle is? In any case, one obstacle seems to be that you don't understand those sentences. In fact, I don't understand them myself although it's possible that I would if huge chunks of them weren't missing.

 

[Mehrgan]

Simply because I wasn't sure those sentences were correct, I had trouble making them longer to provide a bigger context.

For number 2, I meant to put three ideas into a single sentence:

A: Some people have faced serious obstacles (at work or the like).
B: They need to overcome these obstacles.
C: They are advised to ... . (To seek advice, to take measures, etc)

 

[Tarheel]

Perhaps:

They face serious obstacles. They much overcome them in order to succeed.

I have no suggestions for the others.

The context for something is the situation in which it appears.

 

[Tarheel]

Note that you can have more context but not a bigger one.