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We did not receive your cheque and you sent it last week.
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The connective ‘
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Is that the restaurant in where you all got food poisoning?
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It is incorrect to say ‘in where’.
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Mary was the nurse on duty. She saved the patient’s life.
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The two sentences are too short. They should be combined to form a relative clause or linked with ‘and’ to make a compound sentence.
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The Industrial Centre, it is located near the Sports Ground, is closed on public holidays.
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The ‘wrong’ example has a comma splice. You need to make a non-defining relative clause.
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There are the children the headmaster awarded them a special prize.
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We should not add an object pronoun (‘them’) in this case.
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The new CEO will introduce many new ideas who we hope will bring us out of the red.
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The relative clause should come after the subject that it is describing.
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