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Lucas21c Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Could you help me?

I wonder whether the following sentence is fine.
Is "consist + together" redundancy in terms of meaning?
Thank you.

Because black lead, wood, and rubber consist of a pencil together, it can be valuable to us.
  

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lucas21c "consist + together" No. That combination doesn't work. A pencil is [created / manufactured] by putting together black lead, wood, and rubber.

— CalifJim

  • lucas21c "consist + together" No.
  • That combination doesn't work.
  • A pencil is [created / manufactured] by putting together black lead, wood, and rubber.
  • CJ
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lucas21c"consist + together"
No. That combination doesn't work.

A pencil is [created / manufactured] by putting together black lead, wood, and rubber.

CJ
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Thank you for your comment, CalifJim. By the way, your suggestioon seems like a process to make a pencil and so a little different from what I want to say. What I'd like to say here is "A pencil can function because it consist of different parts such as black lead, wood and rubber." In this sense, how about the following revised one?

By putting together black lead, wood, and rubber, a
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Your sentence says something like this:

A pencil can be valuable to us because it puts black lead, wood, and rubber together.

But a pencil can't put those things together. And putting things together doesn't make them valuable. I think you're trying to say,

By putting together black lead, wood, and rubber, we can make something valuable, namely, a pencil.

CJ
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