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Coco le Posted 11 years ago
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I am reading this:

"Secondly, try hard to develop possible transportation means, which are environmental friendly. _So that the citizens* can *reduce the dependence on cars._"

Should it be " the environment-friendly transportation means" that reduce citizens' dependence on cars, or the previously mentioned sentence is understandable, acceptable and correct?
  

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None of it is natural and the sentences should be combined. Try again.

— Mister Micawber

  • None of it is natural and the sentences should be combined.
  • Try again.
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None of it is natural and the sentences should be combined. Try again.
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Hey thanks. I am coding them for errors. So that means I am trying to find where the error lies. I don't think I am going to rearrange the whole sentences to make it look better. Or I may need to add a new category of errors to the coding manual,like, unnatural sentences? But there seems problems in defining naturalness of language. Even natives who are given this sentence will come up with differ
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There is no way to correct the sentence with a single change, and that is very often the case with learner efforts. If you are 'coding' other such sentences in that way, you are oversimplifying the language acquisition process.
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language acquisition process cannot be investigated through error codes only, but if sentences are improved drastically, we are not describing what errors they make but forcing them to accept knowledge that they are yet not up to understand.
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Boy, is that wrong thinking! Just about the opposite of what effective language training involves.
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