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Park sang joon Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Can I use these sentence?

1) Did you see a white man about 6-feet in a black bomber jacket and on a baseball cap?
2) Did you see a white man about 6-feet tall in a black bomber jacket and on a baseball cap?
3) Did you see a white man about 6-feet wearing a black bomber jacket and a baseball cap?
4) Did you see a white man about 6-feet tall and wearing a black bomber jacket and a baseball cap?
5) Did you see a white man who is about 6-feet tall and wearing a black bomber jacket and a baseball cap?

I'd like to know whether the above sentences are all right.
  

Top answer

This is how I would say it: Did you see a white man about 6-feet tall wearing a black bomber jacket and a baseball cap? Sentences 1, 2 and 3 are wrong. Sentences 4 and 5 are marginal.

— AlpheccaStars

  • This is how I would say it: Did you see a white man about 6-feet tall wearing a black bomber jacket and a baseball cap?
  • Sentences 1, 2 and 3 are wrong.
  • Sentences 4 and 5 are marginal.
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This is how I would say it:
Did you see a white man about 6-feet tall wearing a black bomber jacket and a baseball cap?

Sentences 1, 2 and 3 are wrong.
Sentences 4 and 5 are marginal.
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Thank you, AlpeccaStars, for your answer. Emotion: smile

I'd like to ask you three more things; I'm afraid I am badgering you.
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In English you say a person is in a jacket or has on a jacket. And you can say a person is in a cap or has on a cap. So you could say: He's in a bomber jacket and (in) a baseball cap. Or, He has on a bomber jacket and (has on) a baseball cap. But to just say "on a baseball cap" or "on a bomber jacket" is ungrammatical.

You could also describe the man as:

about 6 feet
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Thank you, No Name One, for your valuable answer.
Then, can I say this sentence ?
: "Did you see a white man about 6 feet in a black bomber jacket and a baseball cap?"
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park sang joon1) Can I use 6 'feet', not '6-feet', to modify 'man'?
He is six feet tall.
He is a six-foot-tall man.
park sang joon"in a black bomber jacket and on a baseball cap"?

Here is a man on a baseball cap:
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Thank you, AlpheccaStars, for your precise answer.
Your answer is really very helpful for me.

"in a black bomber jacket and on a baseball cap"?
Here is a man on a baseball cap:
I see that "a man on cap" is absurd; I think your explanation with a picture is very effective.
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