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Anonymous Posted 5 years ago
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Is the sentence correct and clear?

He escorted her into an office next to Liz's.

Is the sentence correct and clear?

  

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anonymous Is the sentence correct and clear? When you say "an" office, it means there is more than one office next to Liz's office. The reader is trying to picture it, but he can't.

  • anonymous Is the sentence correct and clear?
  • When you say "an" office, it means there is more than one office next to Liz's office.
  • The reader is trying to picture it, but he can't.
  • Using "the" wouldn't help, because we still don't know which side it is on.
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anonymousIs the sentence correct and clear?

When you say "an" office, it means there is more than one office next to Liz's office. The reader is trying to picture it, but he can't. Using "the" wouldn't help, because we still don't know which side it is on. You have to work in some orientation, maybe in a previous passage, and then use that in this sentence,

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