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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
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I'm not sure if this a right place for asking questions like this but I found your forum helpful and I became encouraged to post it to here.

I tried to use these 5 words (palpitate, palatable, inception, intrepid, matron) in one or two sentences. Would you please let me know if it is correct or not and if it could be written in a better way?

The matron was palpitating when she entered the strange restaurent but she tried to look intrepid from the inception and ordered a platable dish.

  

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Apart from the spelling mistakes with "restaurant" and "palatable", the sentence is correct English. It is, of course, a pretty unusual thing to say!

— Mr Wordy

  • Apart from the spelling mistakes with "restaurant" and "palatable", the sentence is correct English.
  • It is, of course, a pretty unusual thing to say!
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Apart from the spelling mistakes with "restaurant" and "palatable", the sentence is correct English. It is, of course, a pretty unusual thing to say!
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Hi,

I'm not sure if this a right place for asking questions like this but I found your forum helpful and I became encouraged to post it to here. Good. Please post any other queries you may have in the future.
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As has been said, apart from the two spelling mistakes and the missing comma, your sentence is grammatically correct, but if the matron is really palpitating, she's not doing a very good job of looking intrepid! Perhaps you meant that her heart was palpitating; in which case, you could write this:

When the matron entered the strange restaurant, her heart was palpitating, but she tri
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