intransitive, prepositional phrase, adjective clause all used in a sentence

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The responsibility to come up with an idea of building a new infrastructure which will benefit the economy of the district is transferred to a different department.

I am writing to ask if the sentence is grammarly correct.

infintive 
"to come up with an idea" to modify "the responsibility",

prepositional phrase "of building a new infrastructure" to modify "an idea",

adjective clause "which will benefit the economy of the district" to modify "infrastructure"

I think all three of them(infinitive,prepositional phrase, adjective clause) function as adjective , and has been wondering if it's okay to use all three of them in one sentence.Does infinitive,prepositional phrase ,adjective clause have any affect on the structure of the sentence(in terms of grammar)?

Matangi · Answer

This is grammatically correct:

The responsibility OF coming up with an idea FOR building a new THAT
  will benefit the economy of the district is transferred to a different
  department.

The word "responsibility," when followed by a qualifier, is generally used with "of" because the qualifier (in your case "coming up with an idea") describes the word "responsibility." "To" would be used as a function word to indicate purpose, intention, tendency, or result; these are not the meanings that you aim to convey.

The word "idea" is qualified with a purpose after it, which is why "for" is used instead of "of".

"Which" will mostly be used for nonrestrictive clauses, where the given information is not essential for the sentence to make grammatical sense. "That" should be used here because this is a restrictive clause and the sentence needs this clause to be complete.

intransitive, prepositional phrase, adjective clause all used in a sentence

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