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BW2/3 Posted 19 years ago
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0THE human brain is, in surprising part, an appliance powered by electricity. 02br
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00THE human brain is, in surprising part, an appliance which is powered by electricity.02br
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0The human brain is, in 01font00surprisingly large part02font00, an appliance (which is) powered by electricity.02br
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00You can drop the verb and the relative pronoun, like in the first sentence.0-
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0 I think this is more idiomatic:02br
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01i00THE human brain is, 01b00to a large extent02b00, an appliance powered by electricity.02i0-
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0Thank you all, 02br
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00Does it really matter what you put inside the commas? In this case it is 'in suprising part.' I thought whatever between the commas is just extra information. 02br
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0 It matters a lot, because it's part of a sentence which must have meaning. Not every permutation has meaning. 0-
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01cite10Marius Hancu12cite10Not every permutation has meaning. 12br
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00Which you explain the above?0-
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0 Not every ordering/order of words makes sense. 02br
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00 Listen to the patterns in good books and learn from that. 0-
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