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Can someone please tell me why the following sentence is incorrect?

"Of course teaching may have some challenges, such as teaching can be a demanding profession."

  

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desk book 694 Can someone please tell me why the following sentence is incorrect? Two reasons. It's a tautology because having challenges means it is demanding.

  • desk book 694 Can someone please tell me why the following sentence is incorrect?
  • Two reasons.
  • It's a tautology because having challenges means it is demanding.
  • And you are asking "teaching" to be a gerund for "such as" and also the subject of the independent clause "teaching can be a demanding profession", and it can't do both.
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desk book 694Can someone please tell me why the following sentence is incorrect?

Two reasons. It's a tautology because having challenges means it is demanding. And you are asking "teaching" to be a gerund for "such as" and also the subject of the independent clause "teaching can be a demanding profession", and it can't do both.

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Of course teachers may have some challenges, such as classrooms with unruly students.

You need a noun phrase, or list of noun phrases that illustrates "challenges".

It is the people that face challenges, not the profession.

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desk book 694

Can someone please tell me why the following sentence is incorrect?

"Of course teaching may have some challenges, such as teaching can be a demanding profession."

"teaching can be a demanding profession" is a complete sentence on its own. You can't put a complete sentence after "such as".

For practice, you may wish to find t

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The sentence "Of course teaching may have some challenges, such as teaching can be a demanding profession" is incorrect because it is redundant and lacks clarity. The phrase "teaching can be a demanding profession" repeats the same idea as "teaching may have some challenges," making the sentence unclear and awkward.

A better way to express the same idea could be: "Of course, teaching may

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