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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
Grammar
Is underlined part fine?
Hi!
Are there any mistakes here? Especially in the underlined part?
Of course, Germans also have car dealership and other advertisements which are popular also in Australia, but we don’t have, or have very little of them, various social activities ordered by the municipality state or diverse non-profit
organisations,
Thank you!
Are there any mistakes here? Especially in the underlined part?
Of course, Germans also have car dealership and other advertisements which are popular also in Australia, but we don’t have, or have very little of them, various social activities ordered by the municipality state or diverse non-profit
organisations,
Thank you!
Top answer
The sentence seems a strange combination of disparate things. Perhaps it is less strange in context. "little" should be "few", but even with this correction the wording around the underlined part has the feeling of someone creating a sentence as they are speaking.
- The sentence seems a strange combination of disparate things.
- Perhaps it is less strange in context.
- "little" should be "few", but even with this correction the wording around the underlined part has the feeling of someone creating a sentence as they are speaking.
- It does not work well in written English.
- A neater way may be to say "...
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The sentence seems a strange combination of disparate things. Perhaps it is less strange in context.
"little" should be "few", but even with this correction the wording around the underlined part has the feeling of someone creating a sentence as they are speaking. It does not work well in written English. A neater way may be to say "... but we have few if any social activities ...".
"little" should be "few", but even with this correction the wording around the underlined part has the feeling of someone creating a sentence as they are speaking. It does not work well in written English. A neater way may be to say "... but we have few if any social activities ...".
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