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Zhfan Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Please, correct my sentence.

Hello, everybody.

I need some correction of my sentence: "From the 1st to 6th grade all everybody did was scoff at me"

Thanks.
  

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I would say; I was scoffed from the first to sixth grade in school by everyone . Cheers

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I would say;

I was scoffed from the first to sixth grade in school by everyone .

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Thanks, but I'd like to save that sentence with my grammar.
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If you want to keep your sentence, you have to say;

"From the 1st to the 6th grade, all everybody did was to scoff at me"

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The following two options feel more natural to me:

From 1st through 6th grades all everybody did was scoff at me.

From 1st through 6th grades all everyone did was scoff at me.

If they stopped scoffing at you at the end of the 5th grade, change 'through' back to 'to'. If the scoffing continued until the
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Dear Zhfan

Your sentence isn't bad but I can hear a slight problem with it..

- From the 1st to 6th grade all everybody did was scoff at me

That can sound as if everyone in the school, for those six years, used all their time scoffing at you

As an alternative, I might say..

- From the 1st to 6th grade all anyone did was scoff at me

[= Anyone who
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Thank you all! Dave, what if I say "anybody" instead of "anyone"? Is that a big difference?
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Dear Zhfan

There is little difference nowadays, I think

If I were being very careful, I would use "anyone" if there were at least one or two people that I am actually talking about, in the past..

- Anyone who met me would scoff at me

[= In the past, I met people and they'd scoff at me]

..and I would use "anybody" in the case where maybe no one has done
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Just want to toss my two cents worth to this post....
zhfanHello, everybody.

I need some correction of my sentence: "From the 1st to 6th grade all everybody did was scoff at me"
Thanks.
In this sentence, " All everybody..." is a rough combination in my opinion. Anybody - isn't a good opition either.

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'All' means 'the only thing' in his sentence, Dimsum. He was scoffed at; there was no other attitude expressed. Frankly, the original sounds like a very natural conversational utterance to me.

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