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Latest post Wed, Oct 18 2006 2:10 PM by Marius Hancu. 5 replies.
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Tung Quoc  +  282555 Wed, 18 Oct 06 09:41 AM

Hi,

Please fix the mistakes in the following sentence:

Does that sentence have the negative meaning or the positive meaning or both?

Quoc

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nona the brit  +  282563 Wed, 18 Oct 06 10:17 AM

I'm not quite sure what you mean, but it certainly assumes that there are mistakes in the sentence, so I suppose it takes a negative attitude.

'Fix any mistakes' would be neutral. There may or may not be mistakes in the sentence.

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Tung Quoc, 3 yr 35 days ago

Hi,

Is Does that sentence have the negative meaning or the positive meaning or both correct?

Q

nona the brit  +  282576 Wed, 18 Oct 06 10:41 AM

Oh, sorry, I thought your second sentence was asking the question about the first sentence Smile [:)].

Not quite, you have the wrong determiner and you would be better off with commas. Also, as a question, it should end with a question mark.

Does that sentence have a negative meaning, a positive meaning, or both?

Yoong Liat  +  282608 Wed, 18 Oct 06 12:16 PM

Is Please fix the mistakes in the following sentence grammatically correct? Should it be rephrased as follows?

 Please correct the mistakes in the following sentence.

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Marius Hancu  +  282658 Wed, 18 Oct 06 02:10 PM
 Yoong Liat wrote:

Is Please fix the mistakes in the following sentence grammatically correct? Should it be rephrased as follows?

 Please correct the mistakes in the following sentence.

I think both sentences are grammatically correct. But I would not use "fix" in this context, it's too informal for me.
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