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Moon7296 Posted 13 years ago
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as well as
Grateful people are inclined to make healthy decisions. Life and sports present many situations where critical and difficult decisions have to be made. Selfish adults or kids do not make sound decisions as well as are grateful people.
This is a question that asks students to change a correct word for the underlined work or decide if that part is correct in context. I thought the answer should be "... as well as grateful people (do not). But the answer provided is "do"; it sounds very weird to my ears. What do you think?
This is a question that asks students to change a correct word for the underlined work or decide if that part is correct in context. I thought the answer should be "... as well as grateful people (do not). But the answer provided is "do"; it sounds very weird to my ears. What do you think?
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and neither do grateful people" or ", and grateful people do not either". One cannot use "as well as" in negative sentences. As far as I've understood, the sentence means that both selfish adults and grateful people do not make sound decisions, but it's difficult to say with so little context.
- and neither do grateful people" or ", and grateful people do not either".
- One cannot use "as well as" in negative sentences.
- As far as I've understood, the sentence means that both selfish adults and grateful people do not make sound decisions, but it's difficult to say with so little context.
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I would say "...and neither do grateful people" or ", and grateful people do not either". One cannot use "as well as" in negative sentences. As far as I've understood, the sentence means that both selfish adults and grateful people do not make sound decisions, but it's difficult to say with so little context.
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Thank you for your answer.
It's interesting to see your answer because this was the question for the grammar and that "as well as" part was given. (#2 is incorrect according to the answer source; and it says "are" should be corrected to "do" which I don't understand.
Here I leave the full context so I can see more answers hopefully.
Grateful people are inclined to make
It's interesting to see your answer because this was the question for the grammar and that "as well as" part was given. (#2 is incorrect according to the answer source; and it says "are" should be corrected to "do" which I don't understand.
Here I leave the full context so I can see more answers hopefully.
Grateful people are inclined to make
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