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Tamguatlay Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Is the bold word needed? Are there errors in the sentence?

He beautified and turned the drab garden into a lovely Japanese-style garden that invited much praise and drew admiration from visitors as well as those passing by the temple.

1. Is the bold word needed?

2. Are there errors in the sentence?

Thanks
  

Top answer

1. Which word? I think you forgot to bold it?

— GPY

  • 1.
  • Which word?
  • I think you forgot to bold it?
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  • The sentence would probably pass.
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1. Which word? I think you forgot to bold it?

2. The sentence would probably pass. I think it is structurally slightly faulty in the lack of parallelism between "beautified" and "turned the drab garden into".
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GPY1. Which word? I think you forgot to bold it?2. The sentence would probably pass. I think it is structurally slightly faulty in the lack of parallelism between "beautified" and "turned the drab garden into".
He beautified and turned the drab garden into a lovely Japanese-style garden that invited much praise and drew admiration from vis
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If "drew" is omitted then "invited" is understood to govern the whole of "much praise and admiration from visitors ..." rather than just "much praise". There would not be a huge change in meaning since "drew" conveys broadly the same idea as "invited", and we probably assume anyway that the praise is likely to be from visitors.

By lack of parallelism, I mean the lack of a structure that c
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Thanks, GPY.

Could you rephrase the sentence for me, please?

Many thanks.
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He beautified the drab garden. He turned the drab garden into a lovely Japanese-style garden. The Japanese-style garden invited much praise. It also drew admiration from visitors and from people passing by the temple.

"drew" means "elicited" (i.e. the garden caused the visitors to feel admiration). Further paraphrasing seems just an exercise in looking up synonyms and dictionary de
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