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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
Filter out vs. Be filtered out
It'd be much appreciated if you could revise this for me. Is there anything wrong with the grammar in the following sentence?
"One will inevitably end up being the focus, and the other more like irrelevant noise, something to filter out."
The Original : "We cannot allocate our attention to multiple things at once and expect it to function at the same level as it would were we to focus on just one activity. Two tasks cannot possibly be in the attentional focus at the same time. One will inevitably end up being the focus, and the other?or others?more like irrelevant noise, something to be filtered out. Or worse still, none will have the focus and all will be, although slightly clearer, noise, but degrees of noise all the same."
Is it incorrect to use 'filter out' instead of 'be filtered out'?
"One will inevitably end up being the focus, and the other more like irrelevant noise, something to filter out."
The Original : "We cannot allocate our attention to multiple things at once and expect it to function at the same level as it would were we to focus on just one activity. Two tasks cannot possibly be in the attentional focus at the same time. One will inevitably end up being the focus, and the other?or others?more like irrelevant noise, something to be filtered out. Or worse still, none will have the focus and all will be, although slightly clearer, noise, but degrees of noise all the same."
Is it incorrect to use 'filter out' instead of 'be filtered out'?
Top answer
This is better: something to be filtered out
- This is better: something to be filtered out
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