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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
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A grammatical error?
"The problem with this analogy is that diet is independent of the genetic reality; the gene for phenylketonuria does not engender a "motivation" to desire phenylketonuria. There is no gene militating against an individual's eating a diet that will prevent the phenylketonuria."
Why is the article in bold there exactly? I don't understand.
Why is the article in bold there exactly? I don't understand.
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Anonymous Why is the article in bold there exactly? I assume you don't really want to know why "the" is in bold. I suspect it's bold because you wrote it that way.
- Anonymous Why is the article in bold there exactly?
- I assume you don't really want to know why "the" is in bold.
- I suspect it's bold because you wrote it that way.
- I take it as "the phenylketonuria that they might otherwise have, as described earlier", but it would make just as much sense to me without "the".
- CJ
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AnonymousWhy is the article in bold there exactly?I assume you don't really want to know why "the" is in bold. I suspect it's bold because you wrote it that way.
I take it as "the phenylketonuria that they might otherwise have, as described earlier", but it would make just as much sense to me without "the".
CJ
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