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Anonymous  #476519  Wed, 13 Feb 08 04:32 PM
is this sentence correct?

professor black considers that younger women are less prepared to deal with the sacrifices she has dealt with.

  
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Clive  #476533  Wed, 13 Feb 08 05:05 PM
Hi,
is this sentence correct?

professor black considers that younger women are less prepared to deal with the sacrifices she has dealt with.

No, because you need to add two capital letters.

You would, of course, need an appropriate context in which to say this.

Best wishes, Clive
  
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Anonymous  #476540  Wed, 13 Feb 08 05:25 PM
i know that i need to add capital letters but that wasn't my question...

the sentence seems to be written correctly and i'm really not sure what's wrong.
so i would like to know... is it correct?

and you don't need the context to figure it out.
  
Anonymous  #476541  Wed, 13 Feb 08 05:35 PM
oh, there are some other things i wanted to ask...

- can you say that someone PERFORMED a speech. 'cause i wrote that in my exam and the teacher said she had never heard of that expression

- is the term 'fighter for human rights' correct? i know that activist would be a more appropriate word but still...

- is it ok to say 'the amount of women' 

 
i'd really appreciate the help, i'm from croatia and on our college there are some problems with the teachers. they give us these exams that are almost impossible to pass and i'm not sure that they actually know the answers :)
  
Grammar Geek  #476544  Wed, 13 Feb 08 05:50 PM
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i know that i need to add capital letters but that wasn't my question...


But when you ask if something is correct and it has an incorrect element, it would be remiss of us to not point that out. Oddly, we expect that when people come to a forum to learn English and present their work as correct, they have taken all due care to ensure that it is correct. Silly of us, I guess.

Context IS important. Are the professor's sacrifices current or in the past? That will determine the tense of your verb.
  
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Grammar Geek  #476546  Wed, 13 Feb 08 05:56 PM
- can you say that someone PERFORMED a speech. 'cause i wrote that in my exam and the teacher said she had never heard of that expression
It's better to say someone gave a speech. You perform in a play.

- is the term 'fighter for human rights' correct? i know that activist would be a more appropriate word but still...
It doesn't sound natural at all. Human rights advocate, or human rights activist, as you suggest, is far better.

- is it ok to say 'the amount of women' 
No, say "the number of women."
 
  
Anonymous  #476554  Wed, 13 Feb 08 06:18 PM
ok, i know that you perform in a play, but what if you google the expressions and find out that ther are several title containing that term, including a topic on this forum on how to perform a speech.

secondly, i also know that fighter for human rights doesn't sound natural and that the other terms are better, but can this one also be used ?

and the amount of women is the same as to perform a speech, if you google it you'll find examples in articles...


anyway, thanks :)))
  
Grammar Geek  #476564  Wed, 13 Feb 08 06:32 PM
You will find examples of just about everything on the Internet.

Are you really comfortable using Google searches as your basis for deciding something is acceptable?
  
Anonymous  #476573  Wed, 13 Feb 08 07:07 PM
Of course not, I was only trying to find some examples for the things that I'm not sure that are correct. I found some examples but I know very well that the Internet is not a reliable source.
Why else would I ask for opinions here?

Thanks for your help, I appreciate it very much :)

And please stop treating me like I'm mentally challenged because I am not.
  
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