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Moon7296 Posted 15 years ago
Essay & Composition Writing

Is there no way to avoid repetition in writing?

The moment he says it to the student, the student was sending a message.

Here 'he' refers to the teacher mentioned before the sentence I took out.

Here 'the student' refers to the student I mentioned before the sentence I took out.

I just set two people (no real people)

As you see, 'the student' is repeated; I put it in a row because I do not know how to avoid repetition in that situation: do not know a gender.

Q1) Do you just say it like:

The moment he says it to the student, he/she was sending a message, regardless the ambiguity?

Q2) Is the usage of the colon and the second comma(underlined) in Q1 is correct?
  

Top answer

Hi, The moment he says it to the student , the student was sending a message. At the moment he says it to the student , the student is sending a message. At the moment he said it to the student , the student was sending a message.

  • Hi, The moment he says it to the student , the student was sending a message.
  • At the moment he says it to the student , the student is sending a message.
  • At the moment he said it to the student , the student was sending a message.
  • Here 'he' refers to the teacher mentioned before the sentence I took out.
  • Here 'the student' refers to the student I mentioned before the sentence I took out.
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3 Answers
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Hi,
The moment he says it to the student, the student was sending a message.
At the moment he says it to the student, the student is sending a message.
At the moment he said it to the student, the student was sending a messa
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Thank you CliveEmotion: smile

You said 'No, particularly the second comma. You need to set the example apart someho
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Hi,

Q) Then put a quotation marks like below and leave the second comma as it is?

Do you just say it like:

'The moment he says it to the student, he/she was sending a message,' regardless the ambiguity?

'Like' here is casual and not very good style.

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