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Rommel Posted 10 years ago
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'Calls' or 'needs'? 'Be given' or 'given'? 'By the elders'' or 'the elders'?

Teenage romance (calls, needs) to be understood and (be given, given) attention by the youth and even (by the elders, the elders).
  

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Teenage romance ( calls, needs ) to be understood and ( be given , given) attention by the young and even (by the elders, the elders). by the elderly. What about by the middle-aged?

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  • Teenage romance ( calls, needs ) to be understood and ( be given , given) attention by the young and even (by the elders, the elders).
  • by the elderly.
  • What about by the middle-aged?
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Teenage romance (calls, needs) to be understood and (be given, given) attention by the young and even (by the elders, the elders). by the elderly.


What about by the middle-aged?
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Would the sentence sound ridiculous if I rewrote it as follows?

Teenage romance needs to be understood and given attention by the young, the middle-aged, and the elderly.

Or would it be better if I rewrote it this way?

Teenage romance needs to be understood and given attention by the young and even by other people older than they.
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Teenage romance needs to be understood and given attention by the young, the middle-aged, and the elderly. Just say eg by people of all ages'.

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