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Kk Posted 22 years ago
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I am not sure these sentence are right or not.
1.Freud,together with his father,would watch the wounded soldiers who are returned from fighting.

2.Every day millions of Americans flock to their drugstores to buy vitamins,which convinced them that pills can help prevent serious illnesses.

3.Every day millions of Americans flock to their drugstores to buy vitamins,who are convinced them that pills can help prevent serious illnesses.
  

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Hi kk, 1. Freud, together with his father, would watch the wounded soldiers return from fighting. 2.

  • Hi kk, 1.
  • Freud, together with his father, would watch the wounded soldiers return from fighting.
  • 2.
  • Every day millions of Americans, convinced that pills can help prevent serious illnesses, flock to their drugstores to buy vitamins.
  • This is an example of a dangling participle : Every day millions of Americans flock to their drugstores to buy vitamins,which convinced them that pills can help prevent serious illnesses.
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Hi kk,

1. Freud, together with his father, would watch the wounded soldiers return from fighting.

2. Every day millions of Americans, convinced that pills can help prevent serious illnesses, flock to their drugstores to buy vitamins.

This is an example of a dangling participle:
Every day millions of Americans flock to their drugstores t
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thank you for help, matthewg

Every day millions of Americans ,who are convinced that pills can help prevent serious illnesses ,flock to their drugstores to buy vitamins. This sentence is the same as, Every day millions of Americans, convinced that pills can help prevent serious illnesses, flock to their drugstores to buy vitamins.

who are convinced ,I can eliminate '' who are
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Yes, you can eliminate "who are": ... Americans, convinced that ...

By the way, the correct use of the comma is to place the comma after a word, leaving no space, then to leave a space before you begin the next word.

So it's "Americans, convinced", not "Americans ,convinced".

I hope you don't mind my mentioning it. It will make your writing look much nicer!
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I have seen punctuation marks inside or outside an ending quote, like

conviced."
convinced".

I suppose they are all correct.
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I believe it goes like this:

American: convinced."
British: convinced".

Although American, I tend to use the British format in this case. It just seems more logical to me.

I suppose technically it should be like this:

She said, "I'm not convinced.".

because you have the inner sentence and the outer sentence, both of which need a period.

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