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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

Spot and explain the error in this sentence

If you require further information on the applicant, I would be pleased to do so.

Thank You.
  

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Do you have thoughts on it? Hint: The first part asks if you need information, a noun. What does the second part of the sentence offer?

  • Do you have thoughts on it?
  • Hint: The first part asks if you need information, a noun.
  • What does the second part of the sentence offer?
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Do you have thoughts on it?

Hint: The first part asks if you need information, a noun. What does the second part of the sentence offer?
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AnonymousIf you require further information on the applicant, I would be pleased to do so.

Thank You.
If you require further information on the applicant, I will be pleased to provide it.

Cheers
CB
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Grammar GeekDo you have thoughts on it?

Hint: The first part asks if you need information, a noun. What does the second part of the sentence offer?





The mental absence of logic by association seems to be quite a common problem among ESL learner. I don't know if there is an affective way to fix it except getting more expos
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I can't say that it is unique to ESL learners. Native make logic errors like this ALL the time. And while context tells you what you need to know, and the meaning is understood, it's not "pretty."
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GoodmanThe mental absence of logic by association seems to be quite a common problem among ESL learner.
That's quite logical because other languages require other associations. That's a problem every language learner has to deal with, not only by learning English
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Other possibilities:

If you required further information on the applicant, I would be pleased to do so.
or
Should you require further ...
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Shatzy
GoodmanThe mental absence of logic by association seems to be quite a common problem among ESL learner.
That's quite logical because other languages require other associations. That's a problem every language learner has to deal with, not only by learning English
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GoodmanThis is evident from reading the posted questions because learners some how presumed we know what they are thinking with the question, and so they posted only partial or incomplete questions or sentence.
The difficulty is the association for itself, I don't think it's just an "absence of logic" in sense of a simple oversight like it would be for a nat

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