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Ponggol Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

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0In an exercise on synthesis, the teacher set this question:02br
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00The rest of the houses along this street were destroyed by fire. The first house was not destroyed (use 'except')02br
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00Her answer is:02br
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01b00"The rest of the houses along this street were destroyed by fire except the first one."02b02br
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00My answer is:02br
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01b00"All the houses along this street, except the first one, were destroyed by fire"02b02br
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00Which is correct? Should be use 'The rest" or "All"?02br
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00Where do we usually place the 'except' phrase? Which of the following is correct (or preferred)?02br
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01b00All the students in the ballet class are girls except john02b00. or02br
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01b00All the students in the ballet class except John are girls.02b02br
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0 I would say that your answer, 01i 01font 01b 00"All the houses along this street, except the first one, were destroyed by fire"02b 02font 02i 00 is correct. " seems more correct to me for the same reason above. edu/owl/resource/600/01

— Freakynick

  • 0 I would say that your answer, 01i 01font 01b 00"All the houses along this street, except the first one, were destroyed by fire"02b 02font 02i 00 is correct.
  • " seems more correct to me for the same reason above.
  • edu/owl/resource/600/01
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0 I would say that your answer, 01i01font01b00"All the houses along this street, except the first one, were destroyed by fire"02b02font02i00 is correct. You start with 'old' or 'known' information and move to the 'new' information using a contrastive conjunction.02br
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0 01b00rest02b00 and 01b00except02b00 do not make sense to me together in such a context, it's like you have a repetition in making an exception. 02br
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00 Yours seems better. 0-
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0Thank you very much for your replies.02br
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00It seems that the sentence should start with words like 'All', 'Every' or 'None' to show general truth, followed by 'except' to single out the odd-man-out. Are there any other such words?02br
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00I have another related question (sorry) about the number for 'None'02br
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0Oh dear, Ponggol, I hate to say this, but if you have correctly understood what your has said, your teacher needs a few more lessons herself!02br
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00The verbs 01i00that need to agree with none02i00 should be singular. "the boys who are at the party" is an entirely separate phrase, and the verb "are" needs to agree with "boys."0-
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0 would it be more appropriate if we add some punctuations?02br
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00None of the boys, who 01b01font00are02font02b00 at the party, wears a blue shirt.02br
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0That gives it a different meaning, Noori.02br
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00None of the boys who are at the party - this is a restricted set of boy. Which boys do you mean? The ones at the party.02br
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00None of the boys, who are at the party, ... - this gives additional information about the boys, but you mean ALL of the boys.0-
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0It would also be better to use the verb 'wear' in the present continuous tense in your sentence, Ponggol.0-
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