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Ohmyrichard Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

sentence error

Hi, everyone. I came across a sentence in a test this morning, which goes, "The first twenty to thirty pages of James Joyce would give any reader a big headache. Fortunately, the rest pages are not hopelessly difficult." The test taker is required to copy the original sentence with errors corrected if there's any. I will change it to "The first twenty to thirty pages of the work by James Joyce would give any reader a big headache. Fortunately, the rest of the pages are not hopelessly difficult." But I am not sure of this revision. I remember Ulysses---the whole of it---is a big headache, so I will not say "The first twenty to thirty pages of Ulysses by James Joyce would give any reader a big headache. Fortunately, the rest of the pages are not hopelessly difficult." Have you got a better revision?
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Hi, Welcome to the Forum. I came across a sentence in a test this morning, which goes, "The first twenty to thirty pages of James Joyce would give any reader a big headache. " The test taker is required to copy the original sentence with errors corrected if there's any.

— Clive

  • Hi, Welcome to the Forum.
  • I came across a sentence in a test this morning, which goes, "The first twenty to thirty pages of James Joyce would give any reader a big headache.
  • " The test taker is required to copy the original sentence with errors corrected if there's any.
  • I will change it to "The first twenty to thirty pages of the work by James Joyce would give any reader a big headache.
  • " The only strictly grammatical error in the original is that it should be 'the rest of the pages'.
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Hi,

Welcome to the Forum.

I came across a sentence in a test this morning, which goes,
"The first twenty to thirty pages of James Joyce would give any reader a big headache. Fortunately, the rest pages are not hopelessly difficult."
The test taker is required to copy the original sentence with errors corrected if there's any. I will change it to
"The firs
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Hi,Clive. Thanks for your explanation. So, you mean I only need to change "the rest pages" to "the rest of the pages" or "the rest of the book/ novel" while keeping the other parts of the original sentence intact, including "The first twenty to thirty pages of James Joyce",do you? "The first twenty to thirty pages of James Joyce" just means "The first twenty to thirty pages of the work or book o
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Hi,
Thanks for your explanation. So, you mean I only need to change "the rest pages" to "the rest of the pages" or "the rest of the book/ novel" while keeping the other parts of the original sentence intact, including "The first twenty to thirty pages of James Joyce",do you? Yes.

"The first twenty to thirty pages of James Joyce" just means "The first twenty to thirty pages of the wor
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