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Meowth Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
Combinations with "unparalleled"
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Could you please help me?
My manual (which was written not by a native speaker) suggests me that I should say like that: "This is an unparalleled resort - absolutely pristine coastline with desolate mounds at a distance"
Can it be "unparalleled"? As for "unparalleled success" and "unparaleled knowledge", they seem quite correct, but can a resort be "unparalleled"?
Could you please help me?
My manual (which was written not by a native speaker) suggests me that I should say like that: "This is an unparalleled resort - absolutely pristine coastline with desolate mounds at a distance"
Can it be "unparalleled"? As for "unparalleled success" and "unparaleled knowledge", they seem quite correct, but can a resort be "unparalleled"?
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I think that probably anything that has no equal could be called 'unparalleled'. It could be positive (this resort town has an unparalleled view of the ocean), or negative (the nerve that he showed in his accusation is unparalleled in judicial history).
- I think that probably anything that has no equal could be called 'unparalleled'.
- It could be positive (this resort town has an unparalleled view of the ocean), or negative (the nerve that he showed in his accusation is unparalleled in judicial history).
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I think that probably anything that has no equal could be called 'unparalleled'. It could be positive (this resort town has an unparalleled view of the ocean), or negative (the nerve that he showed in his accusation is unparalleled in judicial history).
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My take on this line..."This is an unparalleled resort - absolutely pristine coastline with desolate mounds at a distance"
The line has a few problems. If this is a line to promote the resort, it's a terrbile effort in my opinion, and "desolate" is definitely a bad choice of adjective if "mound" was intendned to be mountain. If my guess is correct, it probably meant to say this:
The line has a few problems. If this is a line to promote the resort, it's a terrbile effort in my opinion, and "desolate" is definitely a bad choice of adjective if "mound" was intendned to be mountain. If my guess is correct, it probably meant to say this:
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I agree with you. Exercises in our books are made in such a way that we should use all the adectives of current unit in small paragraph. That's why such strange word combinations take place.
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