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Desafinado Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Is this sentence correct

I think that a verb is missing in the following sentence.

Especially the station platform which was so crowded that less than twenty people were able to get into the train.
  

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Especially the station platform which was so crowded that less than twenty people were able to get into the train. It's not just a verb that is missing. The group of words has no main clause.

— Fivejedjon

  • Especially the station platform which was so crowded that less than twenty people were able to get into the train.
  • It's not just a verb that is missing.
  • The group of words has no main clause.
  • It is therefore not a complete sentence.
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Desafinado I think that a verb is missing in the following sentence.Especially the station platform which was so crowded that less than twenty people were able to get into the train.
It's not just a verb that is missing. The group of words has no main clause. It is therefore not a complete sentence.
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It needs not just a verb but a whole main clause.

Would you like to try to correct it?

Clive
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Hi Clive,

Thanks! Yes, I would like to see your correction. In fact, I wrote my sentence as follows.

Particularly, the station platform was so crowded that less than twenty people were able to get into the train.
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You have altered the structure of the original text.

If you want to do that, your version is OK except the use of 'particularly' is not quite right.
eg In particular, the station platform was so crowded that less than twenty people were able to get into the train.
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Thanks for thorough explanations!
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