karlfurt wrote:
ps_dahiya wrote:
karlfurt wrote:
ps_dahiya wrote:
karlfurt wrote:
braindancer wrote:
Nah, "they" could as well refer to "walls" or "floors". D is unclear - no-go, IMO.
One more reason to choose A.
I wonder wood can warm up the room, coal can warm up the room, some person can warm up the room but how a wall and a floor can warm up the room.
Haven't you seen roman therms?
Even in modern days you can have such systems - water circulating in tubes grabbed into the floor. As a result, the floor warms up the room and not coal or wood. Do you warm up your room by making fire right on you floor?
Sorry if offended you but if you try replacing "they" with "walls" or "floors", sentence is a total non-sense.
If water is circulating in the walls then I won't say walls are warming up the room. Instead I will say water is warming up the room.
No worries, I didn't feel offended.
But if I follow your reasonment, then instead of saying "my electric heater" you say that " my electricity" is warming the room?
And when the room is too warm, you would say "*deleted*, the water is too hot" instead of symply saying that your heater is too warm.
Here the water container can be the wall instead of the heater.
My dear friend it all depends on the context. IMO, all these sentences are correct.
1. All my friends have water heaters so that they[friends] can warm up the rooms.
2. All my friends have water heaters that warm up the rooms.
3. Electricity is better than wood to warm up the rooms.
Anyway, I can not shape someone's opinion but will avoid to indulge in such conversations that are not fruitful to anybody.