Yet another grammar problem keeping from an 800

meghnasridhar
Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:45:46 +0000

Also, I’m not entirely sure how to explain the second one, but let me go ahead and try: To say he was one of the ethnographers who commited his life to studying wouldn’t make much sense because why are you introducing the handful of ethnographers in the sentence if you’re not telling us anything about them? The act of committing their lives to studying is something performed by the group of ethnographers, and the author introduces them in the sentence to say Emmons was one of them.