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Laborious Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Q46: Would it make sense to you, please

Hello, 

Does the following sentence make sense to you? Does it need rephrasing?

- Let's play a game. I'm going to write alphabets, letters, or words with my finger on your back, and you will have to (would it be fine to use 'have to' here? since I'm not forcing them or commanding them to do that) tell me what that alphabet, letter, or word is when I write it on your back. 

Thanks. 
  

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Hello Laborious. This is mostly fine, in my view. I'm not clear what you mean by alphabets .

— Thomas Tompion

  • Hello Laborious.
  • This is mostly fine, in my view.
  • I'm not clear what you mean by alphabets .
  • To write an alphabet is to write all the letters in the alphabet, a, b.
  • c.
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Hello Laborious.

This is mostly fine, in my view.

I'm not clear what you mean by alphabets. To write an alphabet is to write all the letters in the alphabet, a, b. c. d. right through to z, in the case of our alphabet. Maybe you mean this, and if you do, then what you have put is correct.

One tiny suggestion: I'd consider changing
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Thanks for replying, Thomas. One thing please... what's the difference between an alphabet and a letter? I thought they were the same thing.
Can't we say "Wirte all the aphabets of/in English on a piece of paper" to mean "Write all the letters of/in English on a piece of paper"?
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