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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
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Please correct sentence

Please correct sentence

It's so much nicer to pick out a towel from the towel closet when the towels are folded properly as opposed to thrown in and unfolded.
  

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> It's so much nicer to pick out a towel from the towel closet when the towels are folded properly as opposed to thrown in and unfolded. That's very good. I deleted the and because thrown in and unfolded implies two separate actions - throwing the towels into the closet, then unfolding them.

  • > It's so much nicer to pick out a towel from the towel closet when the towels are folded properly as opposed to thrown in and unfolded.
  • That's very good.
  • I deleted the and because thrown in and unfolded implies two separate actions - throwing the towels into the closet, then unfolding them.
  • You intend to say that they're thrown into the closet in an unfolded state which can be expressed as thrown in unfolded .
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> It's so much nicer to pick out a towel from the towel closet when the towels are folded properly as opposed to thrown in and unfolded.

That's very good. I deleted the and because thrown in and unfolded implies two separate actions - throwing the towels into the closet, then unfolding them. You intend to say that they're thrown into the closet in an

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