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Is there any mistake in the underlined part?Most countries have rules which controle ads that promote dangerous products or make an unhealthy diet or lifestyle seem "cool" and attractive.

CalifJim · Accepted Answer

The underlined part is fine.  But "controle" should be "control".

Rishonly · Answer

Hi CalifJim,

I am not able to understand the meaning of " or lifestyle seem "cool" and attractive" in the context of whole sentence. Would you please explain?

CalifJim · Answer

Most countries have rules which controle ads that promote dangerous products or make an unhealthy diet or lifestyle seem "cool" and attractive.

It's all a matter of finding the correct groupings of words.

ads (advertisements) that
1) promote dangerous products
or
2) make something seem attractive.

-- make what seem attractive?
-- make an unhealthy diet seem attractive, for one thing.
-- and what else? ... make what else seem attractive?
-- make an unhealthy lifestyle seem attractive, for another thing.

-- so these are ads that
a) make an unhealthy diet seem attractive
or
b) make an unhealthy lifestyle seem attractive

-- that is, make [an unhealthy (diet or lifestyle)] seem attractive.

"cool" is a slang word which is another way of saying attractive.

CJ

(I wasn't sure what part of this was troublesome, so you may have to narrow it down and ask again if I haven't hit on the explanation that you needed.)

Qingqing · Answer

I understand now. "seem..." is an infinitive without "to"(an object complement).    Thanks.

Rishonly · Answer

Hi CalifJim,

Actually, I was interpreting 'lifestyle seem cool and attractive' as a separate sentence. Now, your explanation clears my doubt. Thanks for a nice explanation.

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