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ESLearner Posted 13 years ago
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All (this/these) (is/are)?

Some of the world's most profitable professions include doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc. All (this/these) works (is/are) performed by highly educated individuals.

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ESLearner Some of the world's most profitable professions include doctors , lawyers , engineers , etc. All (this/these) works (is/are) performed by highly educated individuals. 1) The underlined are not professions; they are people.

  • ESLearner Some of the world's most profitable professions include doctors , lawyers , engineers , etc.
  • All (this/these) works (is/are) performed by highly educated individuals.
  • 1) The underlined are not professions; they are people.
  • 2) 'lucrative' is a better word than "profitable".
  • 3) Try to rewriite the sentence.
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ESLearnerSome of the world's most profitable professions include doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc. All (this/these) works (is/are) performed by highly educated individuals.
1) The underlined are not professions; they are people.
2) 'lucrative' is a better word than "profitable".
3) Try to rewriite the sentence.
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1) So, the correct ones would be medicine, law, engineering?
2) Thanks, that is very helpful!
3) Some of the world's most lucrative professions include medicine, law, engineering, etc. All these are performed by highly educated individuals?

Additional questions:

a) Would 'jobs' hold the same meaning as 'professions' in this sentence?

b) All this/All these, I can
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So, would the correct words would be medicine, law, and engineering? Yes, and now it's correct question grammar.

3) Some of the world's most lucrative professions include medicine, law, engineering, etc. All these (all these what?) )are performed by highly educated individuals? Professions are not performed!
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