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Is the following passage grammatical?
John was the type of man you and I would identify as exceptionally ordinary. His appearance was so, as was his job, house, wife and family. His cat, however, is anything but ordinary. Mr Smite was his name, but is known now as simply ‘cat’ to John – one of many of John’s oddities as of late. It is believed that Cat, or Mr Smite as I shall refer to him, came to John many years ago when John was just a boy, but it remains unclear as to exactly why, when, where and how. What was obvious, however, was that Mr Smite was unlike any other cat. It is quite something for a cat to never eat, drink nor sleep, but something else entirely for a cat to be able to say its own name in thirty seven different languages. It soon became clear that Mr Smite, while looking every bit like a cat, is not from our world, and may not be a cat at all.
Is the following passage grammatical?
John was the type of man you and I would identify as exceptionally ordinary. His appearance was so, as was his job, house, wife and family. His cat, however, is anything but ordinary. Mr Smite was his name, but is known now as simply ‘cat’ to John – one of many of John’s oddities as of late. It is believed that Cat, or Mr Smite as I shall refer to him, came to John many years ago when John was just a boy, but it remains unclear as to exactly why, when, where and how. What was obvious, however, was that Mr Smite was unlike any other cat. It is quite something for a cat to never eat, drink nor sleep, but something else entirely for a cat to be able to say its own name in thirty seven different languages. It soon became clear that Mr Smite, while looking every bit like a cat, is not from our world, and may not be a cat at all.
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A very clean, grammatical paragraph. However, I would make a few corrections, mostly to put this into a common tense (not half past, half present). The other major correction is in the punctuation.
- A very clean, grammatical paragraph.
- However, I would make a few corrections, mostly to put this into a common tense (not half past, half present).
- The other major correction is in the punctuation.
- John was the type of man you and I would identify as exceptionally ordinary.
- His appearance was so, as was his job, house, wife and family.
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A very clean, grammatical paragraph. However, I would make a few corrections, mostly to put this into a common tense (not half past, half present). The other major correction is in the punctuation.
John was the type of man you and I would identify as exceptionally ordinary. His appearance was so, as was his job, house, wife and family. His cat, however, was anything but ordinary.
John was the type of man you and I would identify as exceptionally ordinary. His appearance was so, as was his job, house, wife and family. His cat, however, was anything but ordinary.
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Doctor DNote: "Mr" (mister) always takes a period as it is an abbreviation (Mr.).BrE omits this punctuation in titles.
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