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SAT gam mar question 22. Were I to be granted a whole month in which to do whatever I wanted, I would travel throughout Africa and see as much of that continent as I could. (A) Were I to be granted (B) If I would have been granted (C) With me being granted (D) Granting me (E) By being granted In the sentence, there is a kind of structure" in which to do", which seems to be weird for me. Can you give me more examples? and what is that structure?

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Another example of that sort could be: Were I to be given a class in which to teach whatever I wanted, I would choose to teach a language. OR Were I to pick a writer with whom to spend a day, I would pick Milan Kondra. OR Were I to be given an eraser by which to erase a part of world's history, I would erase the world wars. Explanation: The point is that whenever in a sentence we need to use one of the connectors like WHICH or WHOM, and a preposition like IN, AT, BY, FROM, ETC, the preposition goes before the connector. Another point which relates directly to your question is that sometimes after phases like IN WHICH, AT WHICH, FROM WHOM, ETC we immediately have a complete independent sentence and sometimes we have an dependent clause containing an infinitive (TO + VERB). your case is the latter. Check also these examples: She is the teacher from whom I learnt a lot. OR It is the neighborhood in which I spent most of my teenage years. Hope that was useful.

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