Adverb clause of result

Share on Facebook

Sarunnio

#502693 Sat, 19 Apr 08 04:26 PM

Is my sentence grammatically correct? Any correction would be appreciated.

Most of existing players in the market are so small and still have limit size of their customer base that can make no difference in term of service and pricing among competitors.

I would like to mean "market is quite small and have limit size of their customer base. Therefore, they can make no difference in term of service and pricing".

Thanks in Advance,

Sarunnio

Joined on Fri, Oct 7 2005

Member (64)

Verbs, Clauses, Adverbs

Marius Hancu

#502704 Sat, 19 Apr 08 05:37 PM

You have a major problem in clarity. I've read even your explanations and still can't quite make sense of your stuff ...

I'm not sure e.g. if the limited size of the customer base refers to the market or to the individual competitors. You don't separate well between properties assigned to each.

limited size

Perhaps:

Most of existing players in such a small market have a limited size of their customer base, so there can't be any difference in terms of service and pricing among competitors.

which doesn't quite make sense to me, but ...

Marius Hancu

Joined on Wed, Apr 26 2006

Montreal, Canada

Forum Guru (11,252)

Verbs, Clauses, Adverbs

Clive

#502705 Sat, 19 Apr 08 05:37 PM

Hi,

Is my sentence grammatically correct? Any correction would be appreciated.

Most of existing players in the market are so small and still have limit size of their customer base that can make no difference in term of service and pricing among competitors.

I would like to mean "market is quite small and have limit size of their customer base. Therefore, they can make no difference in term of service and pricing".

Most of the existing players in the market are so small and have such limited customer bases that there is no difference among them in terms of service and pricing.

Best wishes, Clive

Clive

Joined on Thu, Oct 28 2004

Canada

Forum Guru (19,221)

El tango argentino es un pensamiento triste que se puede bailar (The tango argentino is a sad thought which can be danced) Enrique Santos Discépolo

Verbs, Clauses, Adverbs

Anonymous

#513069 Tue, 13 May 08 10:25 AM

Here is the best way to express your thought:

Most (of) existing players in the market are so small and still have such a limited (size of their) customer base that they (can) make no difference in terms of service and pricing among competitors.

Additions are in bold and omissions are in (parentheses). Note: you do not need "size of their" because it is implied by sentence structure and would therefore be redundent.

English Teacher in Taiwan

Kev4God@hotmail.com

Anonymous

Verbs, Clauses, Adverbs, Sentence structures