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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
this rice mill can grind rice as efficiently as bigger rice mills
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Is the following sentence has correct meaning?
this rice mill can grind rice as efficiently as bigger rice mills
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Grammatically, it is ok, but not something a native would say. To convey relatively the same meaning, there is a couple of alternatives. This mill can operate more efficiently than any mills with bigger facility.
- Grammatically, it is ok, but not something a native would say.
- To convey relatively the same meaning, there is a couple of alternatives.
- This mill can operate more efficiently than any mills with bigger facility.
- This rice mill can process rice more efficiently than any bigger mills.
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Grammatically, it is ok, but not something a native would say. To convey relatively the same meaning, there is a couple of alternatives.
This mill can operate more efficiently than any mills with bigger facility.
This rice mill can process rice more efficiently than any bigger mills.
This mill can operate more efficiently than any mills with bigger facility.
This rice mill can process rice more efficiently than any bigger mills.
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Dimsum's sentences are quite formal, not particularly well composed, and his first one uses 'facility' incorrectly. A more simple recasting of your sentence is this:
This rice mill can grind rice as efficiently as bigger ones.
This rice mill can grind rice as efficiently as bigger ones.
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Hi Mr MM,
First, I've never worked a day in my life in rice mills. So if I used the wrong term, I'd take it back. The places I used to work are companies which produced consumer electronics and have assembly plants in different locations, which in manufacturing industry, each is called a "facility", as Toyota has announced it will close its Fremont facility in California in April. If y
First, I've never worked a day in my life in rice mills. So if I used the wrong term, I'd take it back. The places I used to work are companies which produced consumer electronics and have assembly plants in different locations, which in manufacturing industry, each is called a "facility", as Toyota has announced it will close its Fremont facility in California in April. If y
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The original poster has presented a very simple sentence for correction. With the minor corrections I made, it is very much what a native speaker would say. You instead denied this and went on to try to create very formal equivalents: that is my main bone of contention.
On the points you ask about, however:
In your first sentence, you used 'facility' as an uncountable noun, wh
On the points you ask about, however:
In your first sentence, you used 'facility' as an uncountable noun, wh
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