Thank you very much, Clive! I feel
so lucky that I came across this website. Whatever little I have seen of it so
far has made a great impression on me.
I always mess up with the comma. I
was also doubtful about the grammatical correctness of 'what say?', but I hear
it so frequently that I thought it must be correct!
It seems that you know about
cricket! I thought ODI Cricket was how the game is known. The
correction you have suggested makes it a bit awkward. Consider this
variation ...
Critics contend that it is nothing but a degradation of
cricket and view it as a threat to Test
Cricket and ODI.
The sentence is a bit awkward once again. I think the original one was better.
What do you say?
I did not quite understand why I
shouldn't have put 'the' before 'spectators'. You must have noticed that I
dropped 'the' before ‘spectators’ in a previous sentence. Here...
It has found many takers in those who like it fast and furious and hence
has appealed to a much broad spectrum of spectators.
I went
with my instinct.
Also, I
was thinking of putting 'the' before critics. I checked with the example
sentences in my dictionary but it wasn't there. So I dropped it, but did not
understand the reason why. If I am not wrong, we are talking about 'Cricket
Critics' and not critics in general, then why drop the 'the'? Could you kindly
explain?
With regards
Ashish
PS - Kindly point out any error that
you find in whatever I have written! I am sure I have errored in my use of the
comma!