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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

I have two sentences that were red flagged!

1-"There was a girl sat on the carpet."
2-"The banging became loud, rather than acknowledge it, she looked away and continued to hum."
I got flagged for these two sentences, I think they made a mistake, in the first one can you spot any grammar problems? How about the second, I thought it was an okay example of Past Continuous.
I've been asked twice to remove "There was," is it a tightening exercise because I cannot see the grammar mistake?
  

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Anonymous I got flagged for these two sentences Oh, no! Let's see what we can do about that. " There are two solutions that come to mind immediately.

— CalifJim

  • Anonymous I got flagged for these two sentences Oh, no!
  • Let's see what we can do about that.
  • " There are two solutions that come to mind immediately.
  • There was a girl on the carpet.
  • There was a girl who [sat / was sitting] on the carpet.
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AnonymousI got flagged for these two sentences
Oh, no! Emotion: surprise

Let's see what we can do a
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Thanks CJ, I am bit confused about the comma splice thing, I will study a bit on that.

No doubt there will be other questions. I really appreciate your help.
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AnonymousThanks CJ, I am bit confused about the comma splice thing, I will study a bit on that.
You have another example here. You wrote three sentences and connected them with commas. Apparently at some time you fell into the habit of using commas between sentences instead of periods, so you'll have to watch yourself more carefully about that in the future.
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