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Yoong Liat Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

Joining of sentences

0 01b00The boys left the school without permission. The boys' teacher punished them.02br
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02b00The boys' teacher punished them for leaving the school without permission.02br
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0 Hi Yoong,02br 00I think it's ok... What is it in that sentence that you are not sure of? 0-

— Kooyeen

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0 Hi Yoong,02br
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01cite10Kooyeen12cite10Hi Yoong,12br
10I think it's ok... What is it in that sentence that you are not sure of? 12br
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10"The boys' teacher punished them ..." appears odd to me. I'm not saying it is wrong, but I would like to confirm that the sentence is correct. 02br
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0 Oh, probably 01b00"The teacher punished the boys/students for leaving the school without permission"02b00is better. I don't like that "The teacher of the boys" much... Let's see what the others have to say. 050010id1
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0 01i00The boys' teacher punished them for leaving the school without permission.02i02br
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00 Yes, that's a correct joining of the sentences. It is one of many possibilities. This sort of sentence joining exercise is often done in the context of discussions about relative clauses, so other possibilities involve the use of relative clauses, for exam
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01cite10CalifJim12cite11i10The boys' teacher punished them for leaving the school without permission.12i12br
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10 Yes, that's a correct joining of the sentences. It is one of many possibilities. This sort of sentence joining exercise is often done in the context of discussions about relative cla
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01cite10Yoong Liat12cite12br
10"The boys' teacher punished them ..." appears odd to me. I'm not saying it is wrong, but I would like to confirm that the sentence is correct. 12br
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10I think it would be better if it is written as follows:12br
10The teacher of the boys punished them for leaving t
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