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TinaMr Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

Sentence structure

Can one say: "Apart from (in addiction to) widely discussed topics, ex. racism, unfairness, etc., touched (described) in this book, I would like to underline one more aspect, getting huge importance in approximately last 2 decades."

It feels that smt. is wrong with this sentence, but can't figure out what...

  

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I'm sure you meant to write "in addition to". ," or "such as". " But you need to define "importance".

  • I'm sure you meant to write "in addition to".
  • ," or "such as".
  • " But you need to define "importance".
  • Important to whom?
  • Or you could use "significance".
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I'm sure you meant to write "in addition to". Where you use "ex.", you should use "for example" or "e.g.," or "such as". I would re-write the sentence to say:

"In addition to widely discussed topics touched on in the book, such as racism and unfairness, I would like to talk about [bring your attention to] another aspect [of what?] that has become of great importance in the

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There's quite a lot wrong. Here are a few comments..

ex. and smt. are not valid abbreviations.

If you list examples, don't say etc. .because we know that there are others.

addiction is a spelling error.

A topic is not the same as an aspect.

getting huge importance in approximately last 2 decades. You need to reword

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