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LUCHEE Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Punctuation

I'm a little confused here. Is the sentence in italic correct? Is punctuation OK? 

"Gladiators fought in arenas to amuse the Roman people. They had to be the best, if not then the luckiest ones to live."
  

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'They had to be the best - if not, then the luckiest - to live.'

(There are other possibilities.)

Rover
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Thanks. It seemed wrong.

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