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Hans51 Posted 12 years ago
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"National Cancer Center Korea recognizes this day to raise the public awareness."
"National Cancer Center Korea recognizes this day to raise the public awareness."
I have seen this sentence and I was wondering if to raise the public awareness functions as an adverb like I met him to talk about the issue or it functions as an object complement like We recognized him to be the leader? I was confused that I have found that recognize somebody/something to be/have something and here to raise...is to be / have something? However, I feel like it functions as an adverb, meaning purpose, and raise, which is an action verb is a different kind of verb from be and have, which are state verbs right, or raise becomes a state verb sometimes? Or the first example sentence is not natural? What do you native English speakers think? Thank you so much in advance.
I have seen this sentence and I was wondering if to raise the public awareness functions as an adverb like I met him to talk about the issue or it functions as an object complement like We recognized him to be the leader? I was confused that I have found that recognize somebody/something to be/have something and here to raise...is to be / have something? However, I feel like it functions as an adverb, meaning purpose, and raise, which is an action verb is a different kind of verb from be and have, which are state verbs right, or raise becomes a state verb sometimes? Or the first example sentence is not natural? What do you native English speakers think? Thank you so much in advance.
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Assuming that what you wrote is a complete sentence, the article is not very natural for me. " I understand it to mean the former.
- Assuming that what you wrote is a complete sentence, the article is not very natural for me.
- " I understand it to mean the former.
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Assuming that what you wrote is a complete sentence, the article is not very natural for me. It should more naturally be:
"National Cancer Center Korea recognizes this day to raise public awareness."
I believe you are asking whether it means:
"National Cancer Center Korea recognizes this day in order to raise public awareness."
"National Cancer Center Korea recognize
"National Cancer Center Korea recognizes this day to raise public awareness."
I believe you are asking whether it means:
"National Cancer Center Korea recognizes this day in order to raise public awareness."
"National Cancer Center Korea recognize
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Thank you so much! And here is the original passage and I was wondering if still 'the' is not natural or because of former sentences, should we add 'the' or 'raise awareness' without 'the' is a fixed phrase? And I think that the public awareness is 'cancer prevention is better than treatment'. What do you think?
"As an old saying, 'cancer prevention is better than tr
"As an old saying, 'cancer prevention is better than tr
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I would omit the article there. It is not glaringly wrong to include it though. "public awareness" in this case means public awareness generally of issues related to cancer prevention. It is not a fixed phrase as such.
The first sentence is not properly formed, though this does not seem directly relevant to the use of the article..
The first sentence is not properly formed, though this does not seem directly relevant to the use of the article..
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GPYThe first sentence is not properly formed, though this does not seem directly relevant to the use of the article."As an old saying, 'cancer prevention is better than treatment' and the World Health Organization designated March 21st as cancer prevention day" is not properly formed? And then would you rewrite it properly your way?Thank you so much i
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Hans51"As an old saying, 'cancer prevention is better than treatment' and the World Health Organization designated March 21st as cancer prevention day" is not properly formed? And then would you rewrite it properly your way?Thank you so much in advance.I suppose the minimal correction to make the sentence grammatical would be:
"As an old saying go
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