On Thursday 11 February 2010, Benjamin I Krefetz wrote:
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Simon Osborne wrote:
Also, while we're on the subject, the above fix would also fix the
following:
BOOK 25:
(er) The Story So Far: which comprise of -> which comprise OR
which
are comprised of
["Rimoah informed you that Gazad Helkona is occupied by Xaol and
his cohorts, which comprise of Hammerland bandits and remnants of
the army of Darklord Chlanzor, the former ruler of this
city-fortress."]
I'd say this is a different situation because, semantics aside,
"which comprise of" is straight out grammatically incorrect. Also,
in this case, either "which comprise" or "which are composed of"
don't look awkward (at least to me), so I don't think we need to be
going to the thesaurus here :)
"which are composed of" sounds weird to my (German) ears. I wouldn't use
"composed of" in combination with groups of people or animals. I'd only
use it for things. So, I vote for using "which comprise".
