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Jack.Dalton Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Sentence check vol.1

Hi!

I have some doubts about some sentences and I need somebody (possibly a native speaker) to help me with them.

  1. (it’s about women addicted to shopping) They can't imagine life without the possibility of visiting the shops and spending long hours among the shelves and racks. (shouldn’t it be: They can't imagine life without the possibility of visiting shops and spending long hours among shelves and racks.)
  2. The act of buying is a way of escaping from their unsolved problems and for a moment it makes them feel happy. (can we say: the act of buying or could there be just “buying”?)
  3. The best advice then is to take a list of essential products to buy and become "immune" to the various sales and aggressive advertising. (is “immune” the right word here?)
  4. Therefore, all shopaholics should rather try to find a better source of pleasure than a new dress or trinket. (shouldn’t there be “a trinket”?)
5. Can we say “to buy on instalments”?

Thanks.
  

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All five are okay.

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All 5 are ok? Meaning there is no need to change them in any way? Or even meaning that my suggestions are incorrect?

Is it possible to write sth more( Like at least a short explanation like you did in vol. 15 )? Or just

1. it's correct as it is (with your "correction" it's wrong/incorrect)

2. as above

3. as above

4. as above

5. as above.
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All of the sentences you posted are okay as written. Of course one might change a word here and there and the sentence would still be grammatical, but that's true of any sentence. The sentences were written as they are, in the context of the full article they appeared in, and so there is a reason for the particular choice of words in them.

For example, in the first sentence you could
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Ok then. I just had some doubts because these sentences are from a book of a polish woman so I assumed she could have made some mistakes (her sentences usually sound so polish, I mean they may be grammatically correct but they are not English sentences, they are Polish sentences just written with English words.). I woudn't dare do that if these essays were written by a nativer speaker. Anyway than
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