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Lucas21c Posted 11 years ago
Grammar
Respective
Could you confirm whether the underlined part in the following sentence is right?
If not, could you corret it right?
We recognize features - boulders, craters - and that's how we know where we are respective to the comet.
If not, could you corret it right?
We recognize features - boulders, craters - and that's how we know where we are respective to the comet.
Top answer
It isn't right. At least, it doesn't look right to me. I would guess that "relative to the comet" is meant.
- It isn't right.
- At least, it doesn't look right to me.
- I would guess that "relative to the comet" is meant.
- The hyphens should be dashes.
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It isn't right. At least, it doesn't look right to me. I would guess that "relative to the comet" is meant.
The hyphens should be dashes.
The hyphens should be dashes.
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lucas21cCould you tell me how I can make it correct?Does my suggested correction not have the meaning that you want?
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Actually, my question is not about hypen and dash, and I know about their difference. The only reason that I couldn't use em-dash there is just because my keyboard didn't support it. Instead, I put some space in the both side of "-" meaning that this is not a hyphen. I hope you understand what I'd like to know here is whether the part, "where we are respective to the comet", is right or not. If it
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I misread the word, "relative" of GPY's answer, as "respective" so I couldn't understand the answer. [ "I would guess that "respective to the comet" is meant] seems that you can guess what it means though there is some error. However, now I understand what GPY's original answer means after I found out my mistake. Thank you for your help, GPY and fivejedjon, and sorry for bothering you so much beca
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