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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
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Concerning these three sentences. ----Please help me!

0Concerning these three sentences.02br
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00A: We finally realized the importance of hard training.02br
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00 I think the phrase, "the importance of hard training" has inside it the structure that "Hard training is important.02br
00 Am I right?02br
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00B: In the era of declining forests, an importance of green properties such as biodegradability and favorable CO2 balance grows.02br
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00 I think the phrase, "an importance of green properties" doesn't have a structure that02br
00 "green properties are important".02br
00 I think "an importance of green properties" can be paraphrased to "an importance that green properties has". 02br
00 Am I right?02br
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00C: 2005 witnessed the rise in importance of other European markets like those of the United Kingdom, Portugal, Italy and even that of France.02br
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00 I think "importance of other European markets" can be paraphrased to "an importance that other European markets have". 02br
00 Am I right?0-
  

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0 It's hard to understand your question because the meanings of 01i 00be important02i 00 and 01i 00have importance02i 00 are the same. 02br 02br 00 Training is important. 02br 00 Green properties are important.

— CalifJim

  • 0 It's hard to understand your question because the meanings of 01i 00be important02i 00 and 01i 00have importance02i 00 are the same.
  • 02br 02br 00 Training is important.
  • 02br 00 Green properties are important.
  • 02br 00 European markets are important.
  • 02br 02br 00 Maybe you are focusing on the difference between importance as 01i 00need02i 00 (first sentence) and importance as 01i 00significance02i 00 (the other two)?
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0 It's hard to understand your question because the meanings of 01i00be important02i00 and 01i00have importance02i00 are the same. The structure 01i00be important02i00 is more common.02br
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00 Training is important. = Training has importance.02br
00 Green properties are important. = Green
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0－－What I mean is ------ I want to know if the sentence A and sentence B (I found after searching Google) are really correct in grammatical terms. When I ask native speakers if these two are correct, they ignore the sentences I quoted, and say "the" is definitely necessary before "importance. 02br
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00 So I want to ask again if these two are correct or wrong.02br
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0A - yes, your interpretation is correct.02br
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00B is not grammatically correct, due to the use of 'an'. It should read - In the era of declining forests, 01b00the02b00 importance of green properties such as biodegradability and favorable CO2 balance grows.02br
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00 This means that green properties are growing more important,
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0 Hi Anon02br
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00First let me say that I agree with the other native speakers you've apparently asked, and I'd reword sentence B this way:02br
01i00 In 01b00an02b00 era of declining forests, 01b00the02b00 importance of green properties such as biodegradability and favorable CO2 balance grows. 02br
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01cite10Yankee12cite10Hi Anon12br
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10First let me say that I agree with the other native speakers you've apparently asked, and I'd reword sentence B this way:12br
11i10In 11b10an12b10 era of declining forests, 11b10the12b10 importance of green prope
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01cite10Nona The Brit12cite10A - yes, your interpretation is correct.12br
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10B is not grammatically correct, due to the use of 'an'. It should read - In the era of declining forests, 11b10the12b10 importance of green properties such as biodegradability and favorable CO2 balance grows.12br
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