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Mr. Tom Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
Hepatitis B can be latent in the body for up to two months.
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Do you find the following sentence(s) natural, especially the yellow parts? If no, please edit them.
Hepatitis B can be latent in the body for up to two months. So when it is diagnosed, there is no telling what caused it: the surgeon's knife, the dentist's needle, a shaving cut, or something else.
Thanks a lot for your time,
Tom
Do you find the following sentence(s) natural, especially the yellow parts? If no, please edit them.
Hepatitis B can be latent in the body for up to two months. So when it is diagnosed, there is no telling what caused it: the surgeon's knife, the dentist's needle, a shaving cut, or something else.
Thanks a lot for your time,
Tom
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This all looks fine to me.
- This all looks fine to me.
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Thanks, Mr. Wordy!
When I was writing this I wasn't really sure if I should use "a" with surgeon's knife and dentist's needle or "the". After some shapeless thinking, I let the indefinite article play second fiddle to the definite.
Please tell me, can I use "a" before "surgeon" and "dentist"?
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When I was writing this I wasn't really sure if I should use "a" with surgeon's knife and dentist's needle or "the". After some shapeless thinking, I let the indefinite article play second fiddle to the definite.
Please tell me, can I use "a" before "surgeon" and "dentist"?
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Mr. TomPlease tell me, can I use "a" before "surgeon" and "dentist"?
Yes, that would be OK too. In this context, "the" makes the surgeon's knife and dentist's needle seem like "universal" things that everyone is familiar with. When you use "a", you are referring to actual but unidentified instances of the objects. Both w
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