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[absal]

which one is correct and why?plz

 1-This dish has carrots in it. It is a nice carrot dish.

2- This dish has carrots in it. It is a nice carrots dish.

3- This dish has carrots in it. It is a nice carrot's dish.

4- This dish has carrots in it. It is a nice carrots' dish.

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1- I have three American teachers, one of whose classes is on the second floor.

2- I have three American teachers, one of whom classes is on the second floor.

3- I have three American teachers, one of which classes is on the second floor.

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thanks

[SteveD]

N�. 1 in each case.

 

 

[SteveD]

Sorry, I'm going to chicken out and let someone else go into the grammatical reasons.

 

[Tweed]

First one. No 2 "carrot dish" is singular, so carrots dish just doesn't make sense. No.3 "carrot's" means either, "carrot is" or, the dish belongs to carrot. No 4. "carrots'" in this case suggests that the dish belongs to carrots.

No doubt someone can elaborate somewhat on this answer.

[Hgrove]

My gut feeling is that they are all wrong. The American teacher has "classes is" in all three examples; surely it should be "class is" or "classes are"?  However clumsy, I think it should be "one of whom's class is on the second floor" - but it would be better to paraphrase it altogether.  The first one does not make sense to me.  Does it mean that it is a dish made specially to contain carrots?  Or that it is a dish made of carrots?  Or that the carrots cooked in that way, in the dish, are good?

[Hgrove]

Thinking about it, the first "carrot" sentence would be correct if it could be understood in this way: The dish has carrots Strogonoff in it.  Carrot Strogonoff is a nice carrot dish (recipe).

[Kingaroo]

Carrot is used a the adjective to describe the dish. When using a noun as an adjective, it only needs the singular.

Similarly: "An exciting horse race" -- of course there is more than one horse.

[Kingaroo]

In example #2, use "whose" because it is possessive.
Or a more tidy way would be:
"....one of whom has classes on the second floor"

We don't normally use "who" to talk about things, but you could when it is possessive:
"I have three cars, one of whose tires are flat."

[bernardo]

Number 1 is correct in the first one.

Number 1 is the closest to the correct form in the second one, except that it should be "classes are" or "class is".

Hgrove is partly wrong because there is no such word as "whom's"; Kangaroo is correct.

[Moog]

They're all wrong, those aren't carrot they're parsnips and you go to school in a bungalow...

[Carlos26]

Well done, Kingaroo, I was trying to phrase an explanation. Impressive.