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Onr Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
A complicated sentence
In my grammar book, it says:
'A new film has not often before produced such positive reviews.'
I assume that's like saying 'A new film doesn't often have such positive reviews before it is produced' isn't comma needed in this case, like 'has often, before produced, such positive...' ?
If it says that and there's no problem with the structure and with the spelling, I can construct such a sentence as:
'An author must have before writing a good subject to do a good job'
Can't I ?
Thanks in advance.
'A new film has not often before produced such positive reviews.'
I assume that's like saying 'A new film doesn't often have such positive reviews before it is produced' isn't comma needed in this case, like 'has often, before produced, such positive...' ?
If it says that and there's no problem with the structure and with the spelling, I can construct such a sentence as:
'An author must have before writing a good subject to do a good job'
Can't I ?
Thanks in advance.
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It doesn't quite mean that. It means "In the past, a new film has not often generated such positive reviews". In other words, "Few new films have generated such positive reviews".
- It doesn't quite mean that.
- It means "In the past, a new film has not often generated such positive reviews".
- In other words, "Few new films have generated such positive reviews".
- "An author must have, before writing, a good subject to do a good job" is possible (I added some commas to see if that helped), but it doesn't seem like a particularly elegant sentence to me.
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It doesn't quite mean that. It means "In the past, a new film has not often generated such positive reviews". In other words, "Few new films have generated such positive reviews".
"An author must have, before writing, a good subject to do a good job" is possible (I added some commas to see if that helped), but it doesn't seem like a particularly elegant sentence to me.
"An author must have, before writing, a good subject to do a good job" is possible (I added some commas to see if that helped), but it doesn't seem like a particularly elegant sentence to me.
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