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The book has so many high-lightings, but it won't bother your studying.
The book has so many high-lightings, but it won't bother you to study.
The book has so many high-lightings, but it won't bother your study.
The book is for sale for $25.

CalifJim · Accepted Answer

The book has been marked up a lot with a highlighting pen, but that shouldn't interfere with your studying from it.

The book is for sale for $25. (Correct.)

CJ

Netming2000 · Answer

Please correct my grammatical errors in these sentences:

I originally thought that people used coffee beans (to make/ in making) chocolate, but after watching this short video clip, I learned that they used cocoa seed instead.
I originally thought that people used coffee beans (to make/ in making) chocolate, but it turned out that they used cocoa seed instead.

What was interesting about it was that chocolate manufacturing has involved various processes, such as grinding, pressuring, roasting, heating, cooling, and etc. Values and money added into each individual process. The final product, chocolate, distributed to final customers.

CalifJim · Answer

In the future, please start a new thread if you have another set of corrections you'd like looked at. Stay in the same thread only if you have follow-up questions on the sentences you started with. OK? Thanks.

I originally thought that people used coffee beans (to make/ in making) chocolate, but after watching this short video clip, I learned that they used cocoa seed instead. Good. Either wording in blue is fine.

I originally thought that people used coffee beans (to make/ in making) chocolate, but it turned out that they used cocoa seed instead. Same as above.

What was interesting about it was that chocolate manufacturing ~~has~~ involved various processes, such as grinding, pressuring, roasting, heating, and cooling~~, and etc~~. ~~Values and money added into~~ Value is added in each individual process. The final product, chocolate, is distributed to the final customers.

CJ

Netming2000 · Answer

CalifJimWhat was interesting about it was that chocolate manufacturing has involved various processes, such as grinding, pressuring, roasting, heating, and cooling, and etc. Values and money added into Value is added in each individual process. The final product, chocolate, is distributed to the final customers.
CJ

Thanks. Can I use past tense in this sentence? I don't understand about when to use the past tense form and when to use the present form. Can you explain it a bit?
Value was added in each individual process. The final product, chocolate, was distributed to the final customers.

CalifJim · Answer

netming2000Can I use past tense in this sentence? I don't understand about when to use the past tense form and when to use the present form. Can you explain it a bit?

You're describing a process that is still, presumably, in use, so you can tell your story from the viewpoint of the present. Also, you're describing a process that you learned about in the past, so you can tell your story from the viewpoint of the past. Just be consistent.

Unfortunately, I was not consistent. Here are your choices:

1. What was interesting about it was that chocolate manufacturing involves various processes, such as grinding, pressuring, roasting, heating, and cooling. Value is added in each individual process. The final product, chocolate, is distributed to the final customers.

2. What was interesting about it was that chocolate manufacturing involved various processes, such as grinding, pressuring, roasting, heating, and cooling. Value was added in each individual process. The final product, chocolate, was distributed to the final customers.

You use "was interesting" at the beginning of both of these because you are recounting the fact that at the time you learned these facts about chocolate, it was interesting to you.

CJ

Netming2000 · Answer

CalifJim1. What was interesting about it was that chocolate manufacturing involves various processes, such as grinding, pressuring, roasting, heating, and cooling. Value is added in each individual process. The final product, chocolate, is distributed to the final customers.

Thank you. I always get this confused, because a lot of writers writes both present and past tenses interchangeably in a sentence.

Am I correct? This's how I explain it to myself:
What was interesting about (here, I am telling a fact that I learned in the past)....manufacturing involves various processes ( in here, I am telling a fact that is still and always happening)..

If you spot any grammatical errors in this reply, please correct them.

CalifJim · Answer

netming2000If you spot any grammatical errors in this reply

Just one. See below.

netming2000a lot of writers write s

netming2000Am I correct?

Yes.

CJ

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