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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

amish way of life

Is this a natural correct sentence? Do I have to change something?
The Amish way of life is that of the 18th century without technology.

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It sounds like you mean that their way of life is like the eighteenth century would have been without eighteenth-century technology. "

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It sounds like you mean that their way of life is like the eighteenth century would have been without eighteenth-century technology.

"The Amish way of life is that of the 18th century: without technology." or "The Amish way of life is that of the 18th century—without technology."
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I understand

Can I ask you to correct the sentence about Amish way of life to explain ->

Social services take education for kids under 16 seriously. If they find out that a parent hasn't enrolled a student, they'll investigate them and might take the child from them. The Amish community kids stop school after 8th grade but they aren't in
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"The Amish community kids stop school after 8th grade but they aren't involved of the social services don't care for them."

That doesn't work. I can't tell what it means.
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I mean something like this.
Can you tell me how you would phrase please?
In an Amish community, kids stop school after 8th grade but social services let it slide and don't care about them like they would others. If a non amish kid were to not go to school, social services might take them away from the parents on grounds that they are unfit to raise a child.

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Your premise is flawed. They won a Supreme Court decision on this topic. It's not because social services "doesn't care."

By the way, the don't eschew all technology. One of the most amusing things I ever saw was an Amish boy on Rollerblades holding on to the back of a buggy moving at a good clip through town.
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I will look into the thank you, just for the sake of grammar, is there anything grammatically incorrect or not natural about :

In an Amish community, kids stop school after 8th grade but social services let it slide and don't care about them like they would others. If a non amish kid were to not go to school, social services might take them away from the parents on grounds that they are u
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Amish and Social Services should be capitalized.

I suggest "stop attending school" instead of just "stop school"

non-Amish with a hyphen

I would write "on the grounds" not "on grounds" but I'm not sure that yours is wrong and mine is right.

Nice job on the subjunctive.
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