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Rommel Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

Are 'to scare' and 'do something else' correctly used in the sentence?

Are 'to scare' and 'do something else' correctly used in the sentence? I think they are.

Troy and Ted people believe that goblins are monstrous creatures that/which often appear at night, walking around to scare or visit their loved ones or do something else that they might not even know.

  

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They are grammatically correct, but the sentence is odd. "Troy and Ted people"? "to scare or visit their loved ones"?

— Mgdoyle

  • They are grammatically correct, but the sentence is odd.
  • "Troy and Ted people"?
  • "to scare or visit their loved ones"?
  • Those are two completely different activities.
  • Does this mean that sometimes goblins appear at night to visit loved ones, and sometimes just to visit them without scaring them?
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They are grammatically correct, but the sentence is odd.

  • "Troy and Ted people"?
  • "to scare or visit their loved ones"? Those are two completely different activities. Does this mean that sometimes goblins appear at night to visit loved ones, and sometimes just to visit them without scaring them?
  • "that they might not even know"? Who doesn't know? The goblins, or
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