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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
Questions on use of English article
Hi. Could we not use the article in the following instances? 1.
1. The "write the sentences based on the pictures" exercise, warm-up (a warm-up??) for the main lesson, will entail your doing a few things.
2. This writing exercise, warmer (a warmer??) for the main lesson, will entail your doing a few things.
I think this is correct.
John Doe, president of the XXX operation, visited local offices to lift the employee morale.
Also, let us pretend you have asked some students to write some sentences based on the picture they see. Let us also say the picture has a passenger for a train handing his ticket to an attendant. Which is correct? Are they both correct?
A man in (with??) somewhat receding hair is giving his ticket to an (the??) attendant.
I am sorry but please help me with one more question. Is this correct grammatically? When do you think is too much for the number of participle phrases and prepositional phrases? I think when it starts to make difficult for a reader to understand the sentence, then it is right to rewrite the sentence. Would you say having two prepositional phrases (or more) separated by a commas (or commas) in a sentence is good writing practice?
He is sitting in a plastic beach chair, sipping his lemonade and taking a time off from his writing assignment, on a hot day in the summer of XXXX, in a beach-front home.
1. The "write the sentences based on the pictures" exercise, warm-up (a warm-up??) for the main lesson, will entail your doing a few things.
2. This writing exercise, warmer (a warmer??) for the main lesson, will entail your doing a few things.
I think this is correct.
John Doe, president of the XXX operation, visited local offices to lift the employee morale.
Also, let us pretend you have asked some students to write some sentences based on the picture they see. Let us also say the picture has a passenger for a train handing his ticket to an attendant. Which is correct? Are they both correct?
A man in (with??) somewhat receding hair is giving his ticket to an (the??) attendant.
I am sorry but please help me with one more question. Is this correct grammatically? When do you think is too much for the number of participle phrases and prepositional phrases? I think when it starts to make difficult for a reader to understand the sentence, then it is right to rewrite the sentence. Would you say having two prepositional phrases (or more) separated by a commas (or commas) in a sentence is good writing practice?
He is sitting in a plastic beach chair, sipping his lemonade and taking a time off from his writing assignment, on a hot day in the summer of XXXX, in a beach-front home.
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1. The "write the sentences based on the pictures" exercise, warm-up (= the warm up) / a warm-up for the main lesson, will entail your doing a few things. 2.
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- The "write the sentences based on the pictures" exercise, warm-up (= the warm up) / a warm-up for the main lesson, will entail your doing a few things.
- 2.
- As above, but the term 'warmer' is unfamiliar to me.
- John Doe, president of the *** operation, visited local offices to lift employee morale.
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1. The "write the sentences based on the pictures" exercise, warm-up (= the warm up) / a warm-up for the main lesson, will entail your doing a few things.
2. As above, but the term 'warmer' is unfamiliar to me.
John Doe, president of the *** operation, visited local offices to lift employee morale.
A man with a somewhat receding ha
2. As above, but the term 'warmer' is unfamiliar to me.
John Doe, president of the *** operation, visited local offices to lift employee morale.
A man with a somewhat receding ha
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