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Believer Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

Can you correct these sentences?

Can you check if these sentences are OK?

1. It was both home and fortress.

2. He tried very hard to exercise during swim season.

3. He is offering some fishes.

4. It was one of the cradles of Japanese domestic enterprise.

5. They elaborated their ideas and questions.
  

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1. It was both home and fortress. OK, but also to be seen: It was both a home and a fortress.

— Marius Hancu

  • 1.
  • It was both home and fortress.
  • OK, but also to be seen: It was both a home and a fortress.
  • 2.
  • He tried very hard to exercise during swim season.
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1. It was both home and fortress.
OK, but also to be seen:


It was both a home and a fortress.

2. He tried very hard to exercise during swim season. IMO, the swimming

3. He is offering some fishes. Generally, IMO, some fish

4. It was one
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I agree with MH, except that I think it's "elaborated ON their ideas."
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Grammar GeekI agree with MH, except that I think it's "elaborated ON their ideas."
Garner, Modern American Usage seems to indicate that both can be valid:

- they developed/worked out their ideas in more detail: they elaborated their ideas (transitive)
- they presented/explained
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Thank you, Marius.

As to No 1, wouldn't that sentence require articles in front of the nouns "home" and "fortress"?

As to No. 4, wouldn't that sentence need an article for the countable noun "enterprise" like this?

It was one of the cradles of a ??? Japanese domestic enterprise.
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