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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
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0Interestingly, there is a specific type of child abduction can have negative psychological effects on individuals only marginally involved in it, and that is infant abduction.02br
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00Can this sentence be rephrased as follows? Please advise.02br
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00Interestingly, if there is a specific type of child abduction which can have negative psychological effects on individuals only marginally involved in it is infant abduction. 0-
  

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02font 02br 02br 01font 00Can this sentence be rephrased as follows? 01font 00 Interestingly,02font 00 01font 01del 00if there is02del 02font 00 a specific type of child abduction which can have negative psychological effects on individuals only marginally involved in it is infant abduction. 02font 02br 02br 00Best wishes, Clive0-

— Clive

  • 02font 02br 02br 01font 00Can this sentence be rephrased as follows?
  • 01font 00 Interestingly,02font 00 01font 01del 00if there is02del 02font 00 a specific type of child abduction which can have negative psychological effects on individuals only marginally involved in it is infant abduction.
  • 02font 02br 02br 00Best wishes, Clive0-
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01cite10Anonymous12cite10Interestingly, there is a specific type of child abduction can have negative psychological effects on individuals only marginally involved in it, and that is infant abduction. 12br
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00Yes, but to my mind 01u00'If there is . . it is . . '02u00 introduces at least the possibility that there may be some slight doubt about it in the speaker's mind. The structure can, of course, also be used simply as a form of emphasis. But in some contexts, at least some ambiguity may remain.02br
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Interestingly, only infant is marginally involved in a specific type of child abduction that can have negative psychological effect.
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AnonymousInterestingly, only infant is marginally involved in a specific type of child abduction that can have negative psychological effect.
That makes no sense whatsoever.
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