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Believer Posted 19 years ago
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0I have a sentence I think I saw written somewhere. How would you rewrite it so it is correct? I think it is incorrect.02br
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01i00Our company has a children's center for our employees in need of child care.02i02br
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00I think when you have a name in the genitive, normally the article refers to the noun that immediately follows it.02br
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01i00I have a student who has graduated from a CET's course.02i02br
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00Here, let us assume CET stands for 01u00(the??)02u00 Certified Electrical Technician and for the above sentence, 01i00a 02i00modifies the abbreviation 'CET', isn't it? 02br
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00Do you have any suggestions that will help me to decide correctly whether there a need to put the underlined article there? 0-
  

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0 01blockquote 01cite 10Believer12cite 10I have a sentence I think I saw written somewhere. How would you rewrite it so it is correct? 12br 12br 11i 10Our company has a children's center for our employees 11font 10[who are]12font 10 in need of child care.

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  • 0 01blockquote 01cite 10Believer12cite 10I have a sentence I think I saw written somewhere.
  • How would you rewrite it so it is correct?
  • 12br 12br 11i 10Our company has a children's center for our employees 11font 10[who are]12font 10 in need of child care.
  • 11font 10I can't see a problem with this sentence otherwise.
  • )12u 10 Certified Electrical Technician and for the above sentence, 11i 10a 12i 10modifies the abbreviation 'CET', 11font 10doesn't12font 10 it?
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01cite10Believer12cite10I have a sentence I think I saw written somewhere. How would you rewrite it so it is correct? I think it is incorrect.12br
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11i10Our company has a children's center for our employees 11font10[who are]12font10 in need of child care. 11
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0Thank you, Feebs 1102br
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00My question for the first one deals with the underlined phrase in the genitive. Is the article 'a' correct to be there?02br
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01i00Our company has 01u00a children's center02u00 for our employees in need of child care.02i02br
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00As to the second question, let m
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0YEs, both of those need the indefinite article (although there is another problem with your second sentence; the use of 'brought up' is incorrect)/0-
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0Thank you, Nona.02br
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00Why would the following need to have an indefinite article, "a", when the word "children" is plural?02br
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01u00a children's center02u02br
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00As to the second sentence, how would you rewrite it? I agree with you that 'brought up' is a bad, if not incorrect, choice. Would the following
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0In 'children's centre' children's is acting almost as an adjective on centre, as per a private hospital, a dogs' home (centre for rehoming stray dogs not a place where several dogs live permanently). It is a centre for children, not a centre belonging to children.02br
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00Those alternative sentences all sound ok, although I would shorten 2) to 'how to behave in front'02
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