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Safrar Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Can you answer this question?

Hi. I'm new here. Nice to meet you. So, I would like to ask if these sentences are correct or not.

"I'm in a prefecture, that is famous for cherries. I have many foreign friends and want to share the cherries with them, but they are too expensive."

Thank you.
  

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Looks good to me except for this one point - you can remove the comma after 'prefecture'. I like the comma after 'them' as it forces the reader to pause slightly as one would do when speaking

— Chipw

  • Looks good to me except for this one point - you can remove the comma after 'prefecture'.
  • I like the comma after 'them' as it forces the reader to pause slightly as one would do when speaking
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Looks good to me except for this one point - you can remove the comma after 'prefecture'. I like the comma after 'them' as it forces the reader to pause slightly as one would do when speaking
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Welcome to EnglishForward Emotion: smile

The word "prefecture" is very uncommon - I had to look it up to see what it meant. If it's the t
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If I may point out one thing - in your home country the word 'prefecture' may not be common, but maybe in the writers home country it is? Where I live I would not say I live in the state of Atlantico, I would say I live in the department of Atlantico. A person in Canada uses povince. That is why I did not change his word 'prefecture' as we readers do not know the context for that word. Without con
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Alice changed nothing arbitrarily, chip. She made a suggestion, that's all.
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Well, I should have written this. My country is Japan. I'm sure that the word "prefecture" is common here. Because when I looked it up, there was nothing else. Anyway, I'm glad to be able to know about that comma that I should pay attention to here. Thank you very much to all!
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SafrarMy country is Japan. I'm sure that the word "prefecture" is common here. Because when I looked it up, there was nothing else.
Prefecture is the word normally used in English to describe an administrative district in Japan (and one or two other countries), so you used it correctly. It is not used to describe a district in any English-speakin
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Okay. Thank you for the explanation, Blue Jay!

I have just reread Alice1's sentense. That still sounds good. Can someone please explain why "would like to" is used better than "want to" in this case?
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SafrarCan someone please explain why "would like to" is used better than "want to" in this case?
It is the way a native speaker would be more likely to say it. Want to suggests a strong desire, something close to an intention. The only reason you are not sharing the cherries is that you can't afford to do so. Would like to suggests
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That's very easy to understand. Thank you so much again, Blue Jay!
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