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Moguwai007 Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Allowing easy access

The following are self-made sentences.
For a description of a hotel, could you please tell me if the following expression is appropriate ? I am not sure if the part " ideally situated, allowing easy access" sounds natural.

Just a 8-minute walk from Union Station on Red Line, Hotel Lavender is ideally situated, allowing easy access to the popular theme parks, Universal Studios Hollywood.
  

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" is OK. It is very typical of the kind of wording used in hotel promotional literature. "a 8-minute walk" should be "an 8-minute walk".

— GPY

  • " is OK.
  • It is very typical of the kind of wording used in hotel promotional literature.
  • "a 8-minute walk" should be "an 8-minute walk".
  • The end of the sentence doesn't read terribly well.
  • The relationship between "popular theme parks" and "Universal Studios Hollywood" is not very clear.
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"ideally situated, allowing easy access to..." is OK. It is very typical of the kind of wording used in hotel promotional literature.

"a 8-minute walk" should be "an 8-minute walk".

The end of the sentence doesn't read terribly well. The relationship between "popular theme parks" and "Universal Studios Hollywood" is not very clear. You may mean "the popular theme park at Universa
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GPY-san, How about "allowing easy access to popular Universal Studios Hollywood" ?
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moguwai007GPY-san, How about "allowing easy access to popular Universal Studios Hollywood" ?
That does not read well to me.
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