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Cat navy 425 Posted 6 years ago
Grammar

Question about sentences

Dear all,

Kindly correct the following text.

"Our touring party consisted of 39 persons. There was a lot of interaction among us and by the end we all jelled together very well. Some of the most active people included people around the age of 70."


Thank you

  

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That is pretty much all correct. To me, "jelled" looks wrongly spelled. I would spell it "gelled".

  • That is pretty much all correct.
  • To me, "jelled" looks wrongly spelled.
  • I would spell it "gelled".
  • However, dictionaries recognise the spelling with a "j".
  • It could be AmE, though the dictionaries I checked did not specifically say this.
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That is pretty much all correct. To me, "jelled" looks wrongly spelled. I would spell it "gelled". However, dictionaries recognise the spelling with a "j". It could be AmE, though the dictionaries I checked did not specifically say this.

Some people would put a comma after "among us".

Stylistically, the final sentence is very slightly clumsy, partly because of the repetition of "pe

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