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Palinkasocsi Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
Is this formal enough?
Dear Friends,
I wonder if anyone could tell me if this sounds good in an essay or not (especially the second sentence):
Note that the essay doubts that ‘literal’ and ‘non-literal’ meanings are existent and scholarly phenomena. Therefore, any mention of those terms in the essay is attributed to a scholar, researcher or publication (not to the dissertation or its author himself).
Thank you!
Pal
I wonder if anyone could tell me if this sounds good in an essay or not (especially the second sentence):
Note that the essay doubts that ‘literal’ and ‘non-literal’ meanings are existent and scholarly phenomena. Therefore, any mention of those terms in the essay is attributed to a scholar, researcher or publication (not to the dissertation or its author himself).
Thank you!
Pal
Top answer
That doesn't sound good. It's better not to address the reader directly (ie Note that . .
- That doesn't sound good.
- It's better not to address the reader directly (ie Note that .
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- ) I don't now what you mean by ‘ literal’ and ‘non-literal’ meanings and by existent and scholarly phenomena.
- If you doub t something, it means you have an opinion but not sure about it.
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That doesn't sound good.
It's better not to address the reader directly (ie Note that . . .)
I don't now what you mean by‘literal’ and ‘non-literal’ meanings and by existent and scholarly phe
It's better not to address the reader directly (ie Note that . . .)
I don't now what you mean by‘literal’ and ‘non-literal’ meanings and by existent and scholarly phe
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Thank you Clive!
How can I express, in an elegant way, that if I mention the words 'literal'/'non-literal' in the essay ... they are not my words (because I do not believe that such phenomena exist) but somebody else' ...
Cheers
Pal
How can I express, in an elegant way, that if I mention the words 'literal'/'non-literal' in the essay ... they are not my words (because I do not believe that such phenomena exist) but somebody else' ...
Cheers
Pal
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I don't know what you are trying to say..
if you doubt both 'literal’ and ‘non-literal’ meanings, doesn't that mean that you doubt all meanings?
And you seem to think that a meaning is a phenomenon. Sounds odd to me.
Clive
if you doubt both 'literal’ and ‘non-literal’ meanings, doesn't that mean that you doubt all meanings?
And you seem to think that a meaning is a phenomenon. Sounds odd to me.
Clive
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Okay, ... all I want to say is that although I do not believe that literal or non-literal meanings exist, I will use the terms in the essay because other scholars do refer to them in their works. However, each and every time I will give the references to those publications. This is what I want to word in a more formal way.
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Perhaps this,
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Literal and non-literal meanings do not exist. These terms are used here only when quoting other scholars.
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Literal and non-literal meanings do not exist. These terms are used here only when quoting other scholars.
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