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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
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Hi. Please help. Which is correct? I think you don't need to include the word in parentheses.
1. Please draw the face of those three animals and study their (facial) features.
2. Please draw those three animals' faces and study their (facial) features.
1. Please draw the face of those three animals and study their (facial) features.
2. Please draw those three animals' faces and study their (facial) features.
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1. Please draw the faces of those three animals and study their (facial) features. 2.
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- Please draw the faces of those three animals and study their (facial) features.
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- Please draw those three animals' faces and study their (facial) features .
- Anonymous I think you don't need to include the word in parentheses.
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1. Please draw the faces of those three animals and study their (facial) features.
2. Please draw those three animals' faces and study their (facial) features.
2. Please draw those three animals' faces and study their (facial) features.
AnonymousI think you don't need to include the word in parentheses.Nor do I.
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Including "facial" makes it clearer that you mean facial features specifically. The fact that you have previously mentioned faces does not automatically mean that "features" will be understood that way.
1. Please draw the faces of those three animals and study their (facial) features.
1. Please draw the faces of those three animals and study their (facial) features.
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GPYIncluding "facial" makes it clearer that you mean facial features specifically.I took it as granted that if only the faces have been drawn, only the facial features could be studied. Do you see another possibility?
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Mister MicawberI took it as granted that if only the faces have been drawn, only the facial features could be studied. Do you see another possibility?I had not seen your reply when I wrote mine, but I did not understand the sentence without "facial" as inevitably meaning that you should study just the features that you had drawn or were drawing. It could be a
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Hi. Please help. I think both of the following sentences are correct. Are they? Please note the words "meaning" in the first example sentence and "meanings" in the second. Thank you in advance for your help.
1. Please write the meaning of the four sentences.
2. Please write the meanings of the four sentences.
1. Please write the meaning of the four sentences.
2. Please write the meanings of the four sentences.
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AnonymousI think both of the following sentences are correct. Are they?Yes, but the first tells us that all 4 sentences have the same meaning.
Anonymous Please note the words "meaning" in the first example sentence and "meanings" in the second.What else might I note?
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Thank you very much. Please help me with this, too. Are these correct? I wrote numbers 2, 3, and 4 to mean the same.
1. You need to put punctuation marks at the ends of the sentences.
2. You need to put periods at the ends of the sentences.
3. You need to put the period at the ends of the sentences.
4. You need to put periods at the end of the sentences.
1. You need to put punctuation marks at the ends of the sentences.
2. You need to put periods at the ends of the sentences.
3. You need to put the period at the ends of the sentences.
4. You need to put periods at the end of the sentences.
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#3 is no good; the others are fine, although of course periods are only one kind of terminal punctuation mark.
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