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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Grammar
Paragraphs that's been harassing me for a week.
Well, nearly a week anyway:
"And you can buy your mother the Parisian bonnet she wanted." Charles was hoping that the boy's filial intuition would distract him from the girl's more derogatory comments on what they would be doing in France.
"But she hasn't asked for one," said Seb. It was fair to assume that her millinery needs had been lost in the letter's look for Napoleon's wine cellar, or been in one of its supplementary postscripts.
"And you can buy your mother the Parisian bonnet she wanted." Charles was hoping that the boy's filial intuition would distract him from the girl's more derogatory comments on what they would be doing in France.
"But she hasn't asked for one," said Seb. It was fair to assume that her millinery needs had been lost in the letter's look for Napoleon's wine cellar, or been in one of its supplementary postscripts.
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Everything seems to be clear except the phrase 'the letter's look for Napoleon wine cellar' which is confusing in that that the word 'look for' as a phrasal verb is preceded by the article 'the' and possessive 'letter's' thus changing, in an ungrammatical way, the infinitive 'look for' into a sort of neological noun. I'd change the 'look for' into the 'lookout for' to correct the grammatical flaw here.
- Everything seems to be clear except the phrase 'the letter's look for Napoleon wine cellar' which is confusing in that that the word 'look for' as a phrasal verb is preceded by the article 'the' and possessive 'letter's' thus changing, in an ungrammatical way, the infinitive 'look for' into a sort of neological noun.
- I'd change the 'look for' into the 'lookout for' to correct the grammatical flaw here.
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Everything seems to be clear except the phrase 'the letter's look for Napoleon wine cellar' which is confusing in that that the word 'look for' as a phrasal verb is preceded by the article 'the' and possessive 'letter's' thus changing, in an ungrammatical way, the infinitive 'look for' into a sort of neological noun. I'd change the 'look for' into the 'lookout for' t
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