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Zazzex Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
To remove confusion in appositive ?
Hello,
"The government policy resulted in competition among the conventional distance education institute, Lifelong Education University, and those other cyber universities."
"The government policy resulted in competition among the conventional distance education institute, Lifelong Education University, and those other cyber universities."
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I think that removing the commas is technically permissible, but in your case I don't think it results in a sentence that's massively easy to read. " Here I would say "between" rather than "among". I changed "those other" to "the" firstly because "those" feels too chatty and secondly because "other" makes it sound to me as if Lifelong Education University is also a cyber university, which seems not to be the case.
- I think that removing the commas is technically permissible, but in your case I don't think it results in a sentence that's massively easy to read.
- " Here I would say "between" rather than "among".
- I changed "those other" to "the" firstly because "those" feels too chatty and secondly because "other" makes it sound to me as if Lifelong Education University is also a cyber university, which seems not to be the case.
- However, I may not have properly understood the intention of the sentence.
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I think that removing the commas is technically permissible, but in your case I don't think it results in a sentence that's massively easy to read. Perhaps you could say:
"The government policy resulted in competition between Lifelong Education University (a conventional distance education institute) and the cyber universities."
Here I would say "between" rather than
"The government policy resulted in competition between Lifelong Education University (a conventional distance education institute) and the cyber universities."
Here I would say "between" rather than
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Hi guys,
I'd favour this approach.
"The government policy resulted in competition among the conventional distance education institute, called the Lifelong Education University, and those other cyber universities."
Clive
I'd favour this approach.
"The government policy resulted in competition among the conventional distance education institute, called the Lifelong Education University, and those other cyber universities."
Clive
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