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Sun 94 Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

Impede

Is the word 'impede' correct in the following informal speech?

If your grammatical mistakes impede your readers' understadning of your papers, it is called global mistakes.
  

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Impede (or "hinder") is used correctly. But I would not phrase the end of the sentence the way you show it. If your grammatical mistakes impede your readers' understanding of your papers, that is a global mistake.

— Doctor D

  • Impede (or "hinder") is used correctly.
  • But I would not phrase the end of the sentence the way you show it.
  • If your grammatical mistakes impede your readers' understanding of your papers, that is a global mistake.
  • " Or When your grammatical mistakes impede your readers' understanding of your papers, it is called a global mistake.
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Impede (or "hinder") is used correctly. But I would not phrase the end of the sentence the way you show it.

If your grammatical mistakes impede your readers' understanding of your papers, that is a global mistake.

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If your grammatical mistakes impede your readers' understanding of your papers, we call those "global mistakes."

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