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Raen Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
Contradicting wording?
Does this sentence hold?
"The majority of the minority groups is Korean in the city where I live."
I thought since it's regarding the minority groups, how can it be "majority"? Could someone also pick out any grammatical errors too?
Raen
"The majority of the minority groups is Korean in the city where I live."
I thought since it's regarding the minority groups, how can it be "majority"? Could someone also pick out any grammatical errors too?
Raen
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Raen Does this sentence hold? " I would use one of these: The majority of the minority groups are Korean in the city where I live. Most of the minority groups are Korean in the city where I live.
- Raen Does this sentence hold?
- " I would use one of these: The majority of the minority groups are Korean in the city where I live.
- Most of the minority groups are Korean in the city where I live.
- Logically, it's a bit of a push!
- CJ
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RaenDoes this sentence hold?I would use one of these:
"The majority of the minority groups is Korean in the city where I live."
The majority of the minority groups are Korean in the city where I live.
Most of the minority groups are Korean in the city where I live.
Logically, it's a bit of
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Thank you very much, Jim.
CalifJimLogically, it's a bit of a push!Could you elaborate on that? Syntatically and/or semantically, does it make perfect sense? Or better yet, would a native say that? Also, I know the use of plural/singular b-verb has been discussed numerous times on this forum (only now I don't remember what the general consensus is), you ha
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Hi Raen
Technically, if you say "the majority of the minority groups is Korean", that means that Korean groups form a majority -- i.e. there many minority groups that are Korean. The writer most likely doesn't mean that, though.
Technically, if you say "the majority of the minority groups is Korean", that means that Korean groups form a majority -- i.e. there many minority groups that are Korean. The writer most likely doesn't mean that, though.
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CalifJimLogically, it's a bit of a push!Hi,
I don't quite get the meaning of "a bit of push."
Push what?
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Thank you, Yankee.
YankeeThe writer most likely doesn't mean that, though.I can see the fundamental flaw of this sentence now. You're right, that's not what's intended to mean. I wanted to, using the word "majority", express that among the minority groups, the Korean (group) has the biggest population. So that sentence is unequivocally wrong then? No way jose?
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Hi Raen
Chances are good that most people would understand what you intended to say. However, for formal writing, I think you'd be better off rewording the sentence.
Chances are good that most people would understand what you intended to say. However, for formal writing, I think you'd be better off rewording the sentence.
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"a bit of a push" -- idiom. far-fetched, unrealistic, hard to believe.
Also, sometimes, "a bit of a stretch".
CJ
Also, sometimes, "a bit of a stretch".
CJ
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I think I would say "the largest of the minority groups is the Korean community".
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Thanks to Yankee and Jim, and Ruby Rose for that suggestion.
As per Yankee's explanation, it seems that in the original sentence the problem lies on the word "groups", so if I emilinate it, would the sentence stand? Like this:
"The majority of the minorities are Koreans in the city where I live."
A bit of a push?![:^)]
Raen
As per Yankee's explanation, it seems that in the original sentence the problem lies on the word "groups", so if I emilinate it, would the sentence stand? Like this:
"The majority of the minorities are Koreans in the city where I live."
A bit of a push?![:^)]
Raen
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minorities??
Why in plural?
The majority of the minority are Korean in the city where I live. << Did I get it right?
Why in plural?
The majority of the minority are Korean in the city where I live. << Did I get it right?
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