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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

help me please!

Did i write this sentece right?

When a gun is shot, its interior imperfections leaves printed microscopic marks in its shell casing.
  

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" I would probably also use the zero article where you have the first "its, but "its" is fine if you prefer it. Is it accurate to say "printed" or is it really "scratched" or "etched"? I don't know enough about guns to know if it's the casing or the actual bullet that's scratched.

— BarbaraPA

  • " I would probably also use the zero article where you have the first "its, but "its" is fine if you prefer it.
  • Is it accurate to say "printed" or is it really "scratched" or "etched"?
  • I don't know enough about guns to know if it's the casing or the actual bullet that's scratched.
  • When a gun is fired, interior imperfections in the gun barrel scratch microscopic marks on the shell casing.
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  • imperfections leave (plural)

  • Change is the last "its" - the shell casing is not that of the gun -- make that "the."

  • Also, I would say "fired" and not "shot."

  • I would probably also use the zero article where you have the first "its, but "its" is fine if you prefer it.

  • Is it accurate to say "printed" or is it really "scratched" or "etched
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Hi GG,

I'm a Canadian, so who am I to argue with an American about guns?Emotion: wink However, here goes.

I know that the ba
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I don't know either - hence my last bullet. Everything I ever learned about such things came from watching CSI. I seem to recall them taking the bullet from the body and looking at the scratches under the microscope, but... maybe it was something else.
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