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Alc24 Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

5 questions weird setnece, can someone correct

Could someone tell me if the following are correct?

1 The magnetic field attracts anything magnetic. OK

2 He wants to know what color car you want. OK

3 In a movie, 5 minutes of the characters time isn't 5 whole minutes, It's not minute for minute. OK

4 The setenece above is talking about the movie's time frame in relation to actual time (can the part in bold be said and is it grammatically correct, and how would you say it if its incorrect?)(this sentence has to do with the 3rd, what I'm trying to say is that one real minute isn't equal to one minute in a movie, for example when a bomb is going to go off in 30 minutes in a movie, the audience only has to wait 10 mintues to see the bomb go off.)

5 The computer takes forever to start after its be shut off abruptly.

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one more thing could the following be said: the films time frame deals with... The movie's 50's time frame set the trend for the movie. The decade he spends trying to win her over lends the film its time frame and its coherence.

— Alc24

  • one more thing could the following be said: the films time frame deals with...
  • The movie's 50's time frame set the trend for the movie.
  • The decade he spends trying to win her over lends the film its time frame and its coherence.
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one more thing could the following be said:

the films time frame deals with...

The movie's 50's time frame set the trend for the movie.

The decade he spends trying to win her over lends the film its time frame and its coherence.

Thank you
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1 The magnetic field attracts anything magnetic. -- OK, but "the magnetic field" means you are talking about some specific magnetic field that you've already mentioned or is otherwise known to the reader.

2 He wants to know what color car you want. -- OK



3 In a movie, five minutes of the character's time isn't five whole minutes. [P
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Can anyone tell if the 3 above setneces are correct, and I also wanted to know If "It's not minute for minute" is correct and conveys what I'm trying to say

can you also say :

  • His eluding the police for more than a decade gave the movie it's time-frame.
thank you
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alc24
the films time frame deals with...

The movie's 50's time frame set the trend for the movie.

The decade he spends trying to win her over lends the film its time frame and its coherence.


These all seem odd to me.
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alc24I also wanted to know If "It's not minute for minute" is correct and conveys what I'm trying to say

It's possible, but it may not be the best way of saying this.
alc24His eluding the police for more than a decade gave the movie it's its time-frame.
Seems odd to me. I don't think "time-frame" is quite rig
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Than what about number 4 and the very top (time frame in relation to the actual time" how would you say that other than the way uou have "the movie isn't in real time" Would you use time frame, Can you give me some setneces with time frame?

Thank you
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alc24Then what about number 4 at the very top (time frame in relation to the actual time)? How would you say that other than the way you have ("the movie isn't in real time")?
I can't think of any concise way to say this other than the one I suggested. If you want more clarity you can give an explicit example. For example, "The mo
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How would you say number 4 then?
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alc24
How would you say number 4 then?


Possibly you could say:

"The sentence above is talking about the difference between fictional time (the time elapsed in the characters' fictional lives) and screen time (the time taken to portray events on screen)."

There may be a better way of saying this. You could lose the explanati
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sorry I meant 3 In a movie, 5 minutes of the characters time isn't 5 whole minutes, It's not minute for minute. OK THE MINUTE FOR MINUTE PART
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