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Bsss10 Posted 19 years ago
Grammar
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00 I don’t know whether these sentences conform to the usage of English. 02 pre01 pre
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00 1. Most poor people have something in common. They had to assume a role of sustaining their family after their elementary school graduation. 02 h3
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01 h300 2. Parents with a handsome salary can not just improve their family’s living standard. This also enables their children to have more opportunities of obtaining higher education than the poor. 02 h3
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01 h300 3.This is why today’s parents, most of whom didn’t get a good education in their early age, expect much of their own children and push them to make efforts to increase access to higher education. 02 h3
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01 h300 4. Parents don’t want their children to do an unpleasant work as they do now. Therefore, they work more than many times as hard as other people in order to set aside much money. This amount of money can be used as education fund for their children in the coming years. 02 h3
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" To say that they have "something in common" does not necessarily mean they have the same thing in common. The second part sounds very funny, because for one thing, one does not "graduate" from elementary school--one "promotes" to Junior high or Middle school. Also, there is (usually) no ceremony, so to call it an "elementary school graduation" sounds very funny.
- " To say that they have "something in common" does not necessarily mean they have the same thing in common.
- The second part sounds very funny, because for one thing, one does not "graduate" from elementary school--one "promotes" to Junior high or Middle school.
- Also, there is (usually) no ceremony, so to call it an "elementary school graduation" sounds very funny.
- Also, it doesn't make much sense.
- For one thing, some poor people don't go to Elementary school, although many go on to Middle school, etc.
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0 #1) Change to: "Poor people have one thing in common." To say that they have "something in common" does not necessarily mean they have the same thing in common. The second part sounds very funny, because for one thing, one does not "graduate" from elementary school--one "promotes" to Junior high or Middle school. Also, there is (usually) no ceremony, so to call it an "elementary school
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