Present tense sentence structure
I inspect buildings. I carry a laptop and look for problems. When I find a problem, I type out a description into a field much like the one I'm using on your website here. Because the expected conditions and equipment are known, I was wondering if I could use drop-down boxes with all the equipment and conditions to build sentences using a tablet and pen instead of typing a sentence. Using a spreadsheet, I have already created the list of equipment and conditions, a list of modifiers (i.e. minor, major, significant). My problem is knowing what other components are necessary to build a complete sentence, the glue if you will to glue these words together. I can do the technical part of the spreadsheet, it's the sentence structure and grammar that is killing me. Does anyone have any input to this problem?
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Do you need one or more sentence templates with blanks into which you can insert selected words? Presumably to construct these templates you would look at the sentences that you presently write free-form and try to create generic or standardised forms of these?
- Do you need one or more sentence templates with blanks into which you can insert selected words?
- Presumably to construct these templates you would look at the sentences that you presently write free-form and try to create generic or standardised forms of these?
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Do you need one or more sentence templates with blanks into which you can insert selected words? Presumably to construct these templates you would look at the sentences that you presently write free-form and try to create generic or standardised forms of these?
0I don't think you are going to find or build a list of "glue" words that will be fail safe without the understanding of which to pick for any given situation.
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