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Thein Lwin 7291 Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

writing

1. Seashells in our hands can be transformed into varieties of things.
2. We humans express our imagination by different colours.
I'd like to know whether the sentences are correct and meaningful. Thanks a lot.
  

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1. "Seashells can be made into various things" may be what you want to say. "transformed" is not necessarily wrong, but it sounds grander and more dramatic.

— GPY

  • 1.
  • "Seashells can be made into various things" may be what you want to say.
  • "transformed" is not necessarily wrong, but it sounds grander and more dramatic.
  • "in our hands" seems superfluous, at least without further context.
  • 2.
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1. "Seashells can be made into various things" may be what you want to say. "transformed" is not necessarily wrong, but it sounds grander and more dramatic. "in our hands" seems superfluous, at least without further context.

2. This doesn't make complete sense. Possibly you mean "using different colours". This would make sense if you are talking about artistic expression.
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GPY"in our hands" seems superfluous, at least without further context.
However, it just occurred to me that this may be what you are aiming for:

"In our hands, seashells can be transformed into a variety of things."

By changing the word order, the emphasis is now on the skill of "us", and the sentence hangs together better.
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Dear GPY, thanks again. If you don't mind, please correct these sentences.
1. Don't consider them(seashells) rubbish.
2. If we only use our intellect, we can get gold from them.
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Thein Lwin 72911. Don't consider them(seashells) rubbish.2. If we only use our intellect, we can get gold from them.
(1) is OK. (I assume that the part in brackets doesn't appear in the actual sentence, but note that a space is required before an opening bracket.)

In (2), the word "intellect" may be too grand for the subject matter, and the (I assume)
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