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Tenacious Learner Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Please Need Correction

Hi teachers,

Could you tell me if this sentence needs any corrections?

However, I strongly recommend you to send an “e-mail reminder” to all your students. It seems to be that some of them keep thinking in summer time!!

Thanks in advance
  

Top answer

Grammatically, it is ok. You could write it as: "However, I strongly recommend that you send an e-mail reminder to all your students. ]" I imagine that you mean they are getting the times wrong?

— Free_spirit

  • Grammatically, it is ok.
  • You could write it as: "However, I strongly recommend that you send an e-mail reminder to all your students.
  • ]" I imagine that you mean they are getting the times wrong?
  • This could be worded a little better.
  • I assume you don't mean they think about the summer time and their holidays...
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Grammatically, it is ok.

You could write it as:

"However, I strongly recommend that you send an e-mail reminder to all your students. It seems that some of them keep [thinking in summer time!!]"

I imagine that you mean they are getting the times wrong? This could be worded a little better. I assume you don't mean they think about the summer time and their holidays... b
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Hi free_spirit,

Thank you once again.

free_spirit I assume you don't mean they think about the summer time and their holidays... but I'm not sure.
Quite the opposite, What I mean is that they still thinking about their holidays.

I didn't express myself very well. So sorry for it!
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Hi -

Two things, and please read the second one because it will make a difference.

Things one is about this point: there is no need for quotes around "e-mail reminder." Your are not using that phrase in a new or unexpected way. Just say "send and e-mail remidner" without the quotes. An informal but easily understood way to say what you want to say is perhaps "a part of their brai
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Hi Grammar Geek,

Thanks a lot for your advices. I should tell you that I'm in this forum just because of you. A year ago, September in fact, you told me about this forum and how to enter here. You probably don't remember, but I do!
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Thinking Spainrecommend you to send
No. recommend that you send.

The same goes for suggest.

*I suggest you to try the cake. No.

I suggest that you try the cake. Yes.

And propose.

*They proposed us to take the southern route. No.

They proposed that w
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Well, I'm happy to hear I was the reason you first came here.

You could give titles like A Paragraph from Five Sundays in August" (or whatever the title of your story is).
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Hi Jim,

Thank you for your correction and the 'advice'.Emotion: smile

Wrong one

However, I strongly recommend you to
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Hi Grammar Geek,

Thank you for your suggestion. I sure will.

Best regards

TS
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Thinking SpainRight One
However, I strongly recommend that you send an “e-mail reminder” to all your students. It seems to be that some of them keep thinking in summer time!!
Yes, plus you need to incorporate all the other suggestions given in this thread. It all adds up to this:

However, I strongly recommend that you send an e-mail reminder t
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Thinking SpainSo, the verbs, 'recommend, suggest, and propose' never take an object pronoun after them. They take a 'that clause'. Is that so?
It is so. Yes. Unless the pronoun is a direct object. This is only likely to happen with recommend.

Please recommend me for the job.

______________

The
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