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Rmontez Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

Please help me correct this sentence.

I knew that when I started to attend college, I wanted more out of it than just academics. I have always viewed it as a new frontier from which I would emerge irrevocably changed and ready to live my life and restart my career.
  

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I don't think emerging from a frontier sounds good. "?

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I don't think emerging from a frontier sounds good. Maybe something like "...over which I will step..."?
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So....This the sentence would be "I have always viewed it as a new frontier over which I will step irrevocably changed and ready to live my life and start my career."?
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RmontezI have always viewed it as a new frontier from which I would emerge irrevocably changed and ready to live my life and rstart my career
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This is not a well formed sentence. What is "it"?

Especially this part "I would emerge irrevocably changed and (non- par
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RmontezI knew that when I started to attend college, I wanted more out of it than just academics. I have always viewed it as a new frontier from which I would emerge irrevocably changed and ready to live my life and restart my career.
I knew that when I started to attend college, I wanted more out of it than just academics. I
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Goodman: «I would emerge irrevocably changed and (non- paralell with "would") ready to live my life and rstart my career"»

Why are they non-parallel?

I would emerge:
a) irrevocably changed
b) ready to live...
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The way I perceived it was "I would emerge irrevocably changed and would be ready to live... "

It appeared to me as a compound sentence because of "and". What you just showed is that you are saying it's ok to express it as

"I would emerge ready to live….and I would emerge irrevocably cha
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Goodman: «What you just showed is that you are saying it's ok to express it as

"I would emerge ready to live….and I would emerge irrevocably changed."»

Yes.

«If it true, then I am saying the same thing but I saw the latter part missing “would be”.»

I am sorry, but I didn't understand you. Does it have to have the second "would be"?

«I’ll retract it if i

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