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User_gary

#416570 Mon, 10 Sep 07 07:00 AM

There is no clarity in your explanation.

It must be clarified by any means.

I must clarify these things to them by next week.

I was quite amazed at the clarify of her voice.

You can make your doubts clear only when you ask questions to teachers without any reticent.

Please correct my sentences.

User_gary

Joined on Fri, Jan 5 2007

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Mister Micawber

#416752 Mon, 10 Sep 07 03:25 PM

There is no clarity in your explanation. -- OK

It must be clarified by any means.-- OK

I must clarify these things for them by next week.

I was quite amazed at the clarity of her voice.

You can clear your doubts only when you ask questions of teachers without any reticence.

Mister Micawber

Joined on Wed, Aug 4 2004

Yokohama

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User_gary

#416759 Mon, 10 Sep 07 03:34 PM

Thank you Mister Micawber.

I know we can say "I want to make it clear", and I assume the "it" could be "any doubts', "paragraph", "sentence", etc.

So why "make your doubts clear" is incorrect?

User_gary

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Mister Micawber

#417029 Tue, 11 Sep 07 08:08 AM

Make your doubts clear does not mean 'clear your doubts' (= eliminate your doubts), but has the opposite meaning: 'Make your doubts clear' = present a clear statement of your doubts.

I made the paragraph clear = I wrote a clearer paragraph.
I made my thoughts clear = I explained my thoughts clearly.
I made my doubts clear = I explained my doubts clearly (this does not mean that I resolved them).

Make it clear is idiomatic, and appears with a following restrictive clause:

I want to make it clear that I do not agree.
They made it clear which model they liked best.

Mister Micawber

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