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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
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A question on a particular sentence structure (and/or grammar).
Which of these two sentences is better? Or are there any other alternatives you can suggest, please?
Monty is like an omniscient monkey, Peter had told himself; relating, in a non-physical way, to the Japanese macaques that had been in one of his biology classes.
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Monty is like an omniscient monkey, Peter had told himself; relating, in a non-physical way, to the Japanese macaques that his biology master had used to describe one of Asia's most unsual omnivores.
Monty is like an omniscient monkey, Peter had told himself; relating, in a non-physical way, to the Japanese macaques that had been in one of his biology classes.
or:
Monty is like an omniscient monkey, Peter had told himself; relating, in a non-physical way, to the Japanese macaques that his biology master had used to describe one of Asia's most unsual omnivores.
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Monty is like an omniscient monkey , Peter told himself , recalling the Japanese macaques that he had observed in a biology class.
- Monty is like an omniscient monkey , Peter told himself , recalling the Japanese macaques that he had observed in a biology class.
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Monty is like an omniscient monkey, Peter told himself, recalling the Japanese macaques that he had observed in a biology class.
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Thank you. Monty is impressed, and Peter grateful (although Monty, as a dog, is a bit disturbed at being compared to a monkey).
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