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English grammar: "attracted them to travel to the country"?
How do you say the grammatically wrong sentence below?
1. Beautiful scenery attracted them to travel to the country.
3 Answers
- ?Lv 72 years ago
Scenery is inert, and not magnetic. It would be better to say they were attracted by the scenery rather than the other way around.
- ?Lv 72 years ago
The desire to see beautiful scenery attracted them to the country.
The desire to see beautiful scenery was the attraction for visiting the country.
The problem with your sentence is that you're making "beautiful scenery" the actor- as if it were calling to them, or beckoning them.
- ?Lv 62 years ago
I honestly think it's correct, though if you wanted to sound professional, I'd say: "Beautiful scenery was the attraction that brought them to the country."
What probably made it incorrect is because when you're "attracted to" anything, the subject must be a noun. "Travel the country" is not a noun.
