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14 Apr 2020, 05:23
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Anything that is useful and spreads so fast has to be considered one of the greatest inventions of all time.
Does the sentence have any grammatical mistake?
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Does the sentence have any grammatical mistake?
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14 Apr 2020, 07:02
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no. that's not right. there's a parallelism error.
"useful" modifies the subject "that"- useful is a adjectival modifier.
spreads also modifies "that" but there seems to be a parallelism error.
Anything that is useful and spreads so fast has to be considered one of the greatest inventions of all time.
"useful" modifies the subject "that"- useful is a adjectival modifier.
spreads also modifies "that" but there seems to be a parallelism error.
Anything that is useful and spreads so fast has to be considered one of the greatest inventions of all time.
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14 Apr 2020, 07:46
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Sentence Structure-
Anything
that is useful and spreads so fast
has to be considered one of the greatest inventions of all time.
"And" is parallel marker --- and this is correct in this sentence.
"That is useful" is not parallel to "That spreads so fast"
Should be either
"That is useful" parallel to "That spreads fast" OR
"That is so useful" parallel to "That spreads so fast"
"So fast " is not making sense here... we usually use so in "So - that" form ..... Example - Rita is so intelligent that she has to be considered ........
Best sentence would be ---
Anything
that is useful and spreads fast
has to be considered one of the greatest inventions of all time.
Anything
that is useful and spreads so fast
has to be considered one of the greatest inventions of all time.
"And" is parallel marker --- and this is correct in this sentence.
"That is useful" is not parallel to "That spreads so fast"
Should be either
"That is useful" parallel to "That spreads fast" OR
"That is so useful" parallel to "That spreads so fast"
"So fast " is not making sense here... we usually use so in "So - that" form ..... Example - Rita is so intelligent that she has to be considered ........
Best sentence would be ---
Anything
that is useful and spreads fast
has to be considered one of the greatest inventions of all time.
