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Nicky Couture Posted 20 years ago
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How can I make this sentence better?

0Orwell sympathized with the people of 010200, but was a police officer for the town, who the people of 010200 despised.02br
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0 How about:01blockquote 01blockquote 11blockquote 21blockquote 31font 40Orwell sympathized with the people of Burma. 0-

  • 0 How about:01blockquote 01blockquote 11blockquote 21blockquote 31font 40Orwell sympathized with the people of Burma.
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0 How about:01blockquote
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31font40Orwell sympathized with the people of Burma. But he was a police officer for the town, and was, consequently, despised.42font42br
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0Another possibility--02br
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01font00Orwell sympathized with the people of Burma, though the people of the Burmese town-01del00where he was a police officer02del00-despised him.02font02br
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00This also sets up the contradiction.02br
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00EDIT; Unless you mean that
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0Hi,02br
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00These other versions are fine, but if you wanted to make a correct sentence with very few changes to the original, you could say:02br
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01font00Orwell sympathized with the people of Burma, but was a police officer for the town whom the people of Burma despised.02font02br
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00Bes
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0 Maybe:02br
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00"Orwell sympathized with the Burmese; but as a municipal police officer, he was hated and feared by the local people00."02br
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00MrP0-

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