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Fatimah0786 Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

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Is this correct?: "Some authors have such a vivid imagination about the characters of their novels that they come alive to the readers."

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fatimah0786 Is this correct? It's not quite right. "they" in the last part could be the authors who come alive or the characters who come alive.

— CalifJim

  • fatimah0786 Is this correct?
  • It's not quite right.
  • "they" in the last part could be the authors who come alive or the characters who come alive.
  • If the reader accidentally thinks it's the authors, then the sentence may seem humorous, and you don't want that.
  • This is better: Some authors have such a vivid imagination that the characters in their novels come alive for the readers.
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fatimah0786Is this correct?
It's not quite right. "they" in the last part could be the authors who come alive or the characters who come alive. If the reader accidentally thinks it's the authors, then the sentence may seem humorous, and you don't want that. This is better:

Some authors have such a vivid imagination that the characters in their nove
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Thanks for answering. Just for information sake I would like to know whether it should be 'vivid imagination of/about the characters'?
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fatimah0786Thanks for answering. Just for information sake I would like to know whether it should be 'vivid imagination of/about the characters'?
In what sentence? Are you proposing this?

Some authors have such a vivid imagination about the characters in their novels that the characters in their novels come alive for the readers.
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Thanks for answering.
I only wanted to know the correct collocation for the word 'imagination'

Could you please tell me why the sentence, "come alive to the readers" is wrong?
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fatimah0786Could you please tell me why the sentence phrase "come alive to the readers" is wrong?
It's not wrong. It's just that with "for" you emphasize more that the author is doing something for (for the benefit of) the reader.

My change was a stylistic recommendation, not a grammatical correct
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