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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
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consider

Is this sentence correct?
I consider the most important problem that TV teaches young people that they can solve their problems using violence.
It sounds awkward to me. I suppose the author of this sentence meant that: according to him, the worst side of TV is that it teaches young people to use violence
  

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I consider the most important problem that TV teaches young people that they can solve their problems using violence. On the pattern of I consider my teacher a genius , it's correct, but with such heavy (long) constituents and such ambiguity (on first reading) about where the that clauses fit into the structure, I agree that it is awkward -- extremely awkward. You've grasped the meaning, though.

— CalifJim

  • I consider the most important problem that TV teaches young people that they can solve their problems using violence.
  • On the pattern of I consider my teacher a genius , it's correct, but with such heavy (long) constituents and such ambiguity (on first reading) about where the that clauses fit into the structure, I agree that it is awkward -- extremely awkward.
  • You've grasped the meaning, though.
  • Perhaps it would have helped (a little) to construct the sentence on the pattern of I consider my teacher to be a genius , giving I consider the most important problem to be that TV teaches young people that they can solve their problems using violence.
  • CJ
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I consider the most important problem that TV teaches young people that they can solve their problems using violence.
On the pattern of I consider my teacher a genius, it's correct, but with such heavy (long) constituents and such ambiguity (on first reading) about where the that clauses fit into the structure, I agree that it is awkward -- extr
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