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Angliholic Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

The kids ran wild

The kids ran wild before the teacher came into the classroom.

Is it proper to substitute "became rowdy and uncontrolable" for "ran wild" in the above? Thanks.
  

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You could say that the kids were rowdy or out of control . I wouldn't use ' uncontrolable '. Your sentence suggests that they were definitely controlable with teacher supervision.

— Yankee

  • You could say that the kids were rowdy or out of control .
  • I wouldn't use ' uncontrolable '.
  • Your sentence suggests that they were definitely controlable with teacher supervision.
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You could say that the kids were rowdy or out of control. I wouldn't use 'uncontrolable'. Your sentence suggests that they were definitely controlable with teacher supervision.
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YankeeYou could say that the kids were rowdy or out of control. I wouldn't use 'uncontrolable'. Your sentence suggests that they were definitely controlable with teacher supervision.
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Hi Angliholic

I used 'teacher' as an adjective modifying 'supervision' and 'teacher supervision' basically means "supervision by a/any teacher". I could have been more specific and said that the kids were "controlable with the teacher's supervision". In that case I would have been referring to just one specific teacher.
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