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WANG CHUN  #79846  Wed, 09 Mar 05 04:08 PM
Hello
Can you help me check these sentences.
Thank you for your help.

Disadvantages of sports are less than advantages of sports for children in my book.

Parents place their young children in kindergarten.

There is a common phenomenon that modern young students like to eat saturated-fat food, especially fast food
  
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Adam_T  #79861  Wed, 09 Mar 05 05:06 PM
hello Wang Chun,

Your sentences are not "bad" in themselves, but they do need a bit of polishing.

1 - "Disadvantages of sports are less than advantages of sports for children in my book. "

You could reput it this way:

In my book, there are many more advantages than disadvantages resulting from the practice of sports for children .

to my eyes, "practicing" is better than "doing" for sports;
emphase should be put on the source of your statement, your book;
the positive form, unless you attack another argument maybe, is usually better;

although my sentence also could use some more polishing and thinking, I think it shows a bit the kind of remodeling the two other could use.

Your second sentence is also a very direct statement. Can you support or defend it?
The third one is a bit like the first one. It just needs a little reorganisation... ex:

A common phenomenon, among modern young students, is that they like to eat saturated-fat-food such as fast food.

I typed this very fast, so please don't take it as absolute truth! But that's the way a 2 minutes post is!Wink [;)]

good luck
  
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