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Yoong Liat Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

arrange or rearrange

Arrange / Rearrange the following words to form a correct sentence.

Which preposition in bold should I use? Is the word 'correct' necessary?

baby the crying is it hungry because is
  

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What prepositions? You have a variety of words there: baby the crying is it hungry because is not only prepositions, in fact I don't see any preposition. I think correct is necessary, even though I see Nona doesn't like its presence People can make many strange sentences, more or less correct.

  • What prepositions?
  • You have a variety of words there: baby the crying is it hungry because is not only prepositions, in fact I don't see any preposition.
  • I think correct is necessary, even though I see Nona doesn't like its presence People can make many strange sentences, more or less correct.
  • Also, do you really need the answer?
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What prepositions?

You have a variety of words there:
baby the crying is it hungry because is
not only prepositions, in fact I don't see any preposition.

I think correct is necessary, even though I see Nona doesn't like its presence
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Arrange/rearrange - either can be used in this context

'correct' is not necessary - it is either forming a sentence or it isn't - so it is either correct or it isn't. Actually, it sounds strange with 'correct'.
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Marius HancuWhat prepositions?

You have a variety of words there:
baby the crying is it hungry because is
not only prepositions, in fact I don't see any preposition.

I think correct is necessary, even though I see Nona doesn't like its presence
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Which of the words in bold should I use?
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Nona The Brit
Arrange/rearrange - either can be used in this context

'correct' is not necessary - it is either forming a sentence or it isn't - so it is either correct or it isn't. Actually, it sounds strange with 'correct'.

I agree with you. If you rearrange the words to form a sentence, the sentence must be grammatically correct. It wo
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>It would be ridiculous to grammatically wrong sentence.

You probably mean:

It would be ridiculous to have (or "to say," "to obtain", or "this to result in") a grammatically wrong sentence.

I don't find that ridiculous, it happens every day
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Marius Hancu>It would be ridiculous to grammatically wrong sentence.

You probably mean:

It would be ridiculous to have (or "to say," "to obtain", or "this to result in") a grammatically wrong sentence.

I don't find that ridiculous, it happens every day
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You probably mean:

It would be ridiculous to have (or "to say," "to obtain", or "this to result in") a grammatically wrong sentence.

The student should arrange the words to form a complete sentence.
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Yoong LiatThe student should arrange the words to form a grammatically correct sentence.

This is fine.
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Yoong LiatIf a student is asked to 'rearrange the words to form a sentence', he or she should form a sentence, which is grammatically correct, otherwise the answer will be marked wrong. Based on context, this should be the case.
Well, with this you have a reasonable point.

BTW, I would not use a comma in front of which here an

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