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Bepleased Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Tell me "this", "them", "for" stand for what?

“This” is because cyanobacteria are able to diverge the electrons which emerging from the two primary reactions of oxygenic photosynthesis directly into the production of H2, making “them” attractive microorganisms“for” a renewable production of H2 from solar energy and water.

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Hi "This" must refer back to something the writer has already said - it shows that an explanation has continued from one sentence to the next ... - I always wear a car seat belt - This is because an accident can take months to recover from "them" just refers back to the cyanobacteria (it is a straightforward plural pronoun) "for" is used here as a preposition to tell us the use or purpose of something ... - I wear the car seat belt for safety - The cyanobacteria are good for producing solar energy Hope this helps Dave

— Dave_anon

  • Hi "This" must refer back to something the writer has already said - it shows that an explanation has continued from one sentence to the next ...
  • - I always wear a car seat belt - This is because an accident can take months to recover from "them" just refers back to the cyanobacteria (it is a straightforward plural pronoun) "for" is used here as a preposition to tell us the use or purpose of something ...
  • - I wear the car seat belt for safety - The cyanobacteria are good for producing solar energy Hope this helps Dave
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Hi

"This" must refer back to something the writer has already said - it shows that an explanation has continued from one sentence to the next ...

- I always wear a car seat belt
- This is because an accident can take months to recover from

"them" just refers back to the cyanobacteria (it is a straightforward plural pronoun)

"for" is used here as a prepositio
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Hi,
the original:
[making them attractive microorganisms for a renewable production of H2 from solar energy and water]

Can it be rephrased this way?

making them attractive microoranisms for them as a help to a renewable production of H2 from solar energy and water
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Hi

I think you could say:

- making them attractive microorganisms as a help to a renewable production of H2 from solar energy and water

Dave
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Hi,

I am afraid I don't think so.

In original: making them attractive microorganisms for a renewable production of H2 from solar energy and water, means the [making them attractive microganisms] as part of they do as a help to a renewable production of H2 from solar energy and water

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Hi Bepleased! Greetings to you

It's a pretty complicated sentence. My own feeling is that nothing is being done to make the microorganisms more attractive

- The forests make this an attractive part of the country

But I would not say the forests are really making anything here: they are just adding their contribution to the beauty of the countryside. They are par
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Hi,

Yes, you put it well and had the dialog box appeared----the ability makes themselves attractive microorganisms which is as a help to a renewable production of H2 from solar energy and water.
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the ability makes themselves to become microorganisms for a renewable production of H2 from solar energy and water so as to identy / show / have attractive quality
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Hi,

Can you tell me your e-mail?

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Hi

I don't have an email that I use with EF

My feeling is that there is only so far you can go with methodology. It is good to know grammar but, first, it can be irregular anyway and, second, it does change over time, with people inventing new constructions and new idioms

There are others who are better at discussing methodology than I (or better than me!)

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