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HUBLOT Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
Wednesday's offer went to 8.6 million email addresses of people
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10775810
Instead, Wednesday's offer went to 8.6 million email addresses of people who had given them to the Times.
How does this sentence sound to you? Would "was e-mailed to 8.6 million people" be better than went to 8.6 million email addresses of people?
Instead, Wednesday's offer went to 8.6 million email addresses of people who had given them to the Times.
How does this sentence sound to you? Would "was e-mailed to 8.6 million people" be better than went to 8.6 million email addresses of people?
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Yes, your version with 'was emailed' is more succinct. 6 million subscribers.
- Yes, your version with 'was emailed' is more succinct.
- 6 million subscribers.
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Yes, your version with 'was emailed' is more succinct. You might want to be more specific:
Instead, Wednesday's offer was emailed to 8.6 million subscribers.
Instead, Wednesday's offer was emailed to 8.6 million subscribers.
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In the context of the entire article, the original sentence is exactly right. You can "correct" sentences in isolation, based purely on grammatical principles - and there would be numerous ways of "correcting" any sentence - but you need to look at the context in which the sentence appears.
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