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Pralou Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

Little help in sentence stylistics for non-native speaker

Hi,

I am writing an article and I got an review with a couple sentences marked as stylistically incorrect. Please tell me if I corrected them well, or propose corrections. Some of them look fine to me, or I can not think of better way to phrase them.

Thank you for any help Emotion: smile

It is interesting that most experiments in this area were performed in the recent time.

It looks fine to me

In alternative protocol, 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride has been used as catalyst and subsequently, as reaction medium.

I changed it to

In alternative protocol, 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride has been used as catalyst and as reaction medium.

In literature exists many methods for preparation of conjugated nitroalkenes

It has been corrected to (and it sounds extremely weird to me)

In literature have described many of methods for preparation of conjugated nitroalkenes

  

Top answer

Pralou It is interesting that most experiments in this area [were / have been] performed in the recent time. recently. Pralou In an alternative protocol 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride has been used as a catalyst and as a reaction medium.

  • Pralou It is interesting that most experiments in this area [were / have been] performed in the recent time.
  • recently.
  • Pralou In an alternative protocol 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride has been used as a catalyst and as a reaction medium.
  • Pralou In literature have described many of methods The literature describes many methods for the preparation of conjugated nitroalkenes .
  • As shown above.
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PralouIt is interesting that most experiments in this area [were / have been] performed in the recent time. recently.
PralouIn an alternative protocol 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride has been used as

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