correct sentence please

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If a English speaker says this, would he say it like this?

The usb cable also doubles as a wall charger by adding it on via the usb. You can charge your phone on your computer or on the wall.

The gap in the door isn't wide enough for me to get through. I can only stick my arm through. [The door is ajar] The door wasn't ajar enough for me to get through.

Thanks in advance

KrisBlueNZ · Accepted Answer

"The usb cable also doubles as a wall charger by adding it on via the usb. You can charge your phone on your computer or on the wall."

1. The cable doesn't "double as" a charger. The cable is just the cable. You can connect it to a wall charger or to a computer. The cable has the same function in either case.
2. "... adding it on via the USB" doesn't make sense.
3. USB is always written in capitals. It is an abbreviation (an initialism, to be exact).

You can charge your phone by plugging the USB cable into a computer or a (or the) wall charger.

"The gap in the door isn't wide enough for me to get through. I can only stick my arm through. [The door is ajar] The door wasn't ajar enough for me to get through."

A door can be described as being ajar, but it does not indicate how far open the door is. A door is either ajar, or it isn't. So you cannot say "This door is more ajar than that door" or "the door isn't ajar enough". You need to say that the door wasn't open wide enough for you to get through it.

Anonymous · Answer

Thank you

Is this what you mean by your revised charger sentence?
Here is a picture.
http://www.maisondugsm.com/produit/by_reference.php?id=CHVOIPH3GSLIMOR&rgp=895&gclid=CKOQ-t7ak7cCFbMbtAod4WoAWg

Ps Is this sentence correct?
Is this what you mean by/with your revised charger sentence?

Thank you in advance

KrisBlueNZ · Answer

Yes, that's what I meant. To my knowledge, portable electronic devices such as cellphones, smartphones and tablets that charge through a cable with a USB plug can be charged from a USB port on a computer, or from a USB socket on the back of a charger that plugs into a wall socket, like the one you linked to. I wrote my corrected sentence on that basis.

If you were trying to explain something else, my corrected sentence may not apply to your situation. In that case you need to explain exactly what you mean, in a very clear way. Then I may be able to check your sentence and write a more compact version of it.

"Is this what you mean by/with your revised charger sentence?" is probably acceptable. I don't know whether by or with is better. I would say "Is the 'wall charger' that you refer to in your revised sentence like the one shown at this link?"

Anonymous · Answer

I was trying to explain exactly what I linked. Thank you for the explanation.

I had one concern about something you wrote. Why does the sentence finish with 'to' : ...like the one you linked to.

How would you have written: I was trying to explain exactly what I linked. / I was trying to explain exactly the picture in the link. / I was trying to explain exactly the picture I linked.

Do you think I could ask you help writing the following please? All the sentences are short and concise but are they what you would say. I would like to make them natural. I would like to ask you because you are a native speaker of English please.

There were people playing music in the metro. Since the tube didn't have carriages and it was one long carriage from front to end. The person playing the music would play the song get off, come back onto the metro 4 doors down and play for a different group of passengers. Everyone could hear the same song playing over and over again. It would just get fainter every time.

This metro line is straight/goes straight. It doesn't turn.

As many people can go through the turnstile as there are swipes of the metro card.

As security measure, the police have asked people not to leave their bags unattended.

She looks pretty from the back behind.

There is one too many people in the elevator. Exceeds the maximum weight.

This phone is a step up from the one you had before.

When you arrive late for your training, you get points taken off your behavioral grade.

I didn't get any deep sleep. I slept but not very well. I felt like the slightest noise would wake me. I've been getting light sleep.

Is this natural in this context? What do you say that means about the same thing if this isn't natural?

You are looking at your friends gash in his leg and you say “I am hurting for you”

Thanks for giving me the time.

Anonymous · Answer

Hi Kris, How are you? If you have time can you correct for me, this please?
Thank you in advance

KrisBlueNZ · Answer

Please ask unrelated questions in a separate thread.

Like everyone here, I'm a volunteer, and I choose the questions that I will answer. There are many questions that I can't answer because of my limited knowledge of grammatical analysis and terminology. If I see your questions, and I think I can give you a useful answer to them, I may do. It's the same with everyone else here.

Re linked vs. linked to. In this sense, a link is something that joins two things together, either literally or figuratively. In this case, it takes you from one place (the post you're currently reading) to somewhere else - the object (picture, web page, etc) which is the destination or target of the link, when you click the link. Therefore, the link links to that object. The to isn't needed in the case of "See the linked picture" and some people omit the to in other circumstances; I don't.

1. "I was trying to explain exactly what I linked." Unclear.
2. "I was trying to explain exactly what is shown in the picture in the link."
3. "I was trying to explain exactly the picture I linked." Wrong meaning; you weren't trying to explain the picture; the picture shows what you were trying to explain.

I would say "Yes, the picture I linked to shows exactly what I was trying to explain."
Alternatively, "Yes, the linked picture shows exactly what I was trying to explain."

Anonymous · Answer

Sorry for adding the questions, since I had not got any answers and was having difficulty with them, I would have like for a English person to give me their opinion. Is there any way you can take a look at the ones you know?

I still having trouble with: Yes, the picture I linked to shows exactly what I was trying to explain." Is there another word you can use to help me understand the 'to'?

Thank you in advance

Philip · Answer

AnonymousSorry for adding the questions, since I had not got any answers and was having difficulty with them,

The reason you didn't get a quick response is probably because you "piggy-backed" the question on an existing thread. Kris asked you not to do that because people who have responded to the original may not realize there is something more to be answered.
I would say "the picture in the link".

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