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Contiluo Posted 15 years ago
Essay & Composition Writing

In early times

Please check out the following sentences. Which is better?

(1) The displays (of these clothing, decoration and culture) lets me know how the people made clothes for themselves in early times.

(2) The displays shows us how the people made clothes for themselves hundreds years ago.
  

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What is the context? displays is plural, so the verbs should be let and show in early times is OK, but pre-historical times / the stone age might to better hundreds of years ago is much more vivid. So the better sentence is probably The displays show us how the people made clothes for themselves hundreds of years ago.

  • What is the context?
  • displays is plural, so the verbs should be let and show in early times is OK, but pre-historical times / the stone age might to better hundreds of years ago is much more vivid.
  • So the better sentence is probably The displays show us how the people made clothes for themselves hundreds of years ago.
  • Well done.
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What is the context?

displays is plural, so the verbs should be let and show

in early times is OK, but pre-historical times / the stone age might to better

hundreds of years ago is much more vivid.

So the better sentence is probably

The displays show us how the people made clothes for themselves hundreds of years ago.

Well d

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