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Eelt Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

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Hi !dear clive and others:

Can you help me to correct the following content:

I think poeple somking at a bar should be restricted into a certain area, for example, a smoking room.It's believed that secondhand somking is as bas as firsthand one.As matter of fact, some statistics have suggested that secondhand smoking has twice higher rate of getting lung related cancer than first hand one.People who don't smoke and work at a bar should have the right to protect their health.

Thanks clive! Have a nice weekend.

truly

eelt
  

Top answer

People who don't smoke and work at a bar should have the right to protect their health. I think people smoking in a bar should be restricted to a certain area, for example a smoking room. It's believed that secondhand is as bad as firsthand smoke.

— Clive

  • People who don't smoke and work at a bar should have the right to protect their health.
  • I think people smoking in a bar should be restricted to a certain area, for example a smoking room.
  • It's believed that secondhand is as bad as firsthand smoke.
  • As a matter of fact, some statistics have suggested that people exposed to secondhand smoke get lung cancer at a rate double that for smokers.
  • People who don't smoke but work at a bar should have the right to protect their health.
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Hi,

Can you help me to correct the following content:

I think poeple somking at a bar should be restricted into a certain area, for example, a smoking room.It's believed that secondhand somking is as bas as firsthand one.As matter of fact, some statistics have suggested that secondhand smoking
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Hi!dear clive:

Thanks for your correction. I have learned more and more from you and that get me excited about learning English.Although it's very late here now , around 2:00Am, I was still staying up typing this message to you . I'm wondering when you wake up and see my questions tomorrow, could you please take your time to answer it. Thnaks.

Here are the two sentence that's
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Good morning Eetl,

If you don't smoke, that's good for your health.

If you work in a bar, that's bad for your health.

I used 'but' to show the contrast between these two facts.

Consider sentences like

She was rich and unhappy.

She was rich but unhappy.

Both are correct grammar,
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Hi Clive,

Shouldn't there be a hyphen between second and hand? I could not understand this sentence:

As a matter of fact, some statistics have suggested that people exposed to secondhand smoke get lung cancer at a rate double that for smokers.

Could you please throw some light on the above sentence?
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Dear Clive:

Thanks for your teaching. Now I know how to moderfy a setence more vividly.(could you please also correct sentences I worte? or in the way is more effective, thanks)Another question I like to ask you is about what tense I should use when I am refering to I currently have a job.

Can I say:

I am working. If someone asked me:"are you working?", should I
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Hi,

Shouldn't there be a hyphen between second and hand? Perhaps, but English writers tend to be rather flexible, generally speaking, on the topic of hyphens.

I could not understand this sentence:

As a matter of fact, some statistics have suggested that people exposed to secondhand smoke get lung cancer at a rate double that for smoker
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I've found the following. It seems 'secondhand' is AmE, while 'second-hand' is BrE. (The first two are American English Dictionaries. The others are British English dictionaries.)
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?refid=1861710700
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