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Alc24 Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Need help with grammar and punctuation, having trouble

can someone take a look please its for a student, same old, need someone to take a look, i've tried to correct punctuation and grammar...

He had sagged his pants so much , his pants were dropped to his knees. OK
He's willing to meet any of them/anyone of them. BOTH
I've lost my phone when I've been drunk/when I was drunk. I don't know
Her feet are weird, there is a big size difference between her pinky and biggest toe OK but I don't know if one would understand????
He got a tattoo over his muscles; he outlined his muscle with the tatoo to accentuate the muscle (as in the tattoo takes the exact shape of the muscle to accentuate it) how would you say that????
If the cab gets here now, we wouldn't have had much time to talk NO we won't have had ...
until when is he gone? I don't know if that's correct
I'd forget my Spanish way before I forgot my French. NO way before I'd forget my French
She's more of the snobbish type, everytime she gets a chance to flaunt it, she does. OK
Her voice message last over/more than 3 minutes. BOTH
What kind of music do you think I listen? OK
  

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He had sagged his pants so much, they were dropped to his knees. -- Superfluous space before the comma. This transitive use of "sag" is a little unusual.

— Mr Wordy

  • He had sagged his pants so much, they were dropped to his knees.
  • -- Superfluous space before the comma.
  • This transitive use of "sag" is a little unusual.
  • He's willing to meet any of them/ any one of them.
  • I've lost my phone when I've been drunk.
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He had sagged his pants so much, they were dropped to his knees. -- Superfluous space before the comma. This transitive use of "sag" is a little unusual.

He's willing to meet any of them/any one of them.

I've lost my phone when I've been drunk. -- It's happened on one or more occasions.

I lost my phone when I was drunk. -- It happened on the
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just making sure

  • He's willing to meet any of them/any one of them. BOTH ARE RIGHT HERE
  • If the cab gets here now, we wouldn't have had much time to talk (a typo , 2 differnt sentences)
  • Until when is he gone?
  • I'd forget my Spanish way before I forgot / I'd forget my French (which one would it be here?)
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I see you're making a little bit of progress in the capitalization and punctuation department, Alc. Congrats.

My comments are in the quote:
alc24He had sagged his pants so much , his pants were dropped to his knees. OK No. I might suggest this: His pants were so saggy that they dropped to his knees.
He's wil
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He's willing to meet any of them/any one of them. BOTH ARE RIGHT HERE -- Yes.

If the cab gets here now, we won't have had much time to talk.

Until when is he gone? -- Not very natural. You can say "How long will he be gone?"



I'd forget my Spanish way before I forgot / I'd forget my French. -- Both sound OK to me. There's little perceptibl
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