Paragraph

1 2 3 4 5
   Share on Facebook  
Grammar Geek  #525862  Wed, 11 Jun 08 03:12 PM

Ignore my comment about the giant. I was just trying to think of a metaphor for you. I didn't mean giant, the adjective, but giant, the noun. Your computer is a giant in its power - it's just a small size.

My light brown table supports the intelligent computer system at the opposite side of bed. This sounds like the table is on one side of the bed and the computer is on the other - clearly not right..

If a stool is "lying" it sounds like it's on its side. Just say it's resting or standing.

You do NOT seperate the subject from the verb with a comma.

 

  
Top 10 Contributor
Joined on Tue, Jan 10 2006
Pennsylvania, USA
Veteran Member (15,591)
ModeratorProficient Speaker
Barbara, who answers in American English.
Cute572  #526053  Wed, 11 Jun 08 10:34 PM
 My light brown table supports the intelligent computer system at the opposite side of bed. This sounds like the table is on one side of the bed and the computer is on the other - clearly not right..

ok instead of support, Holds is ok ? 

  
Top 500 Contributor
Joined on Mon, Apr 28 2008
Full Member (211)
Glitter Graphics
optilang  #526058  Wed, 11 Jun 08 10:38 PM
 What about:

On the opposite side of the bed, my light brown table supports the intelligent computer system. 

  
Top 50 Contributor
Joined on Tue, May 13 2008
Poland
Senior Member (2,177)
Proficient Speaker
OptiNative British English Speaker Wherever I may roam, I'm still a Londoner.
Cute572  #526082  Wed, 11 Jun 08 11:48 PM
It seems good to me ofcourse, Mr.Optilang 

Let's see What Grammar Geek and others say ....Indifferent 

  
Grammar Geek  #526110  Thu, 12 Jun 08 02:33 AM

On the opposite side of the bed from WHAT?

  
Cute572  #526204  Thu, 12 Jun 08 09:05 AM
Sorry i dont understand. Its opposite my computer table. Are you saying sentence lack 1 noun ? and if so then where should i put it in sentence. Tongue Tied
  
Grammar Geek  #526306  Thu, 12 Jun 08 01:38 PM

HERE IS SOMETHING                  HERE is your bed             Here is your table, on the opposite side of the bed from "Something."

 A   THING X      B

If you are sitting where A is, B is on the opposite side of THING X.

A is on the opposite side of THING X as B.

 

  
New2grammar  #526309  Thu, 12 Jun 08 01:45 PM

GG. This question is going to *** you off even more.

on the opposite side of THING X. Cute's THING X is "the bed'

On the opposite side of the bed (THING X), ...

What's wrong with this?I'm lost too :(

  
Top 10 Contributor
Joined on Tue, Nov 21 2006
Veteran Member (7,670)
Who wants to go sailing around the world with me?
Grammar Geek  #526323  Thu, 12 Jun 08 02:03 PM

Okay, the bed it THING X. I totally get that. The computer is A. What is B?

On the opposite side of the bed... from me? Am I just standing there, looking across the bed? If so, then say something like I see my bed, and then, on the opposite side of the bed from where I stand, I see my computer. Does this add anything? If not, there is NO REASON to use the word opposite. Next to my bed. Near my bed. Beside by bed. Not far from my bed. On the opposite side of the room FROM my bed. But if you say something is opposite the bed, you need to say what it is opposite of.

If this doesn't make sense, then I won't try again. Write it however you want.

  
1 2 3 4 5
AddThis Feed Button RSS Feed: ESL General English Grammar Questions
© 2008 MediaCET Ltd.
Terms and Conditions & Terms of Service