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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
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Please check these sentences.

The people say nobody lives in this farmhouse but it looks clean inside and I don't see anybody in here; Somebody has been living here.

Is this small paragraph correct?
  

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Anonymous The people say nobody lives in this farmhouse but it looks clean inside and I don't see anybody in here; Somebody has been living here. Is this small paragraph correct? You have a misuse of "and".

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  • Anonymous The people say nobody lives in this farmhouse but it looks clean inside and I don't see anybody in here; Somebody has been living here.
  • Is this small paragraph correct?
  • You have a misuse of "and".
  • "but" correctly marks a contrast: Nobody lives here, but it looks clean.
  • But if you include "I don't see anybody" after the "but", it is going to confuse the reader: Nobody lives here, but ...
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Anonymous The people say nobody lives in this farmhouse but it looks clean inside and I don't see anybody in here; Somebody has been living here. Is this small paragraph correct?
You have a misuse of "and". "but" correctly marks a contrast: Nobody lives here, but it looks clean.

But if you include "I don't see anybody" after the
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