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What's wrong with these sentences? Sun Feb 04, 2007 15:50 pm  What's wrong with these sentences?
 

Hi,

I think this sentence should someone be re-written:

Our aim is to aid webmasters starting a new forum or webmasters with already established forums and boosts their boards.

My suggestion:
Our aim is to help webmasters start a new forum or boost their existing boards.

Here is another sentence that screams to be amended:
To do this we hand pick writers and moderators that are top of their field and offer them to you as members of your very own forums.

What do you think?

Thanks,
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What's wrong with these sentences? Sun Feb 04, 2007 15:54 pm  What's wrong with these sentences?
 

Hi,

How about:

Our aim is to aid webmasters starting a new forum or webmasters with already established forums TO BOOST their boards. ?

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What's wrong with these sentences? Thu Feb 08, 2007 14:04 pm  What's wrong with these sentences?
 

How about:

Our aim is to aid webmasters starting a new forum or those with already established forums BOOST their boards Question
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What's wrong with these sentences? Thu Feb 08, 2007 16:16 pm  What's wrong with these sentences?
 

I'd definitely take out "already" -- "established" shows that they are already in use.
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What's wrong with these sentences? Thu Feb 08, 2007 16:52 pm  What's wrong with these sentences?
 

Hi Torsten,

I am with Alan's version of the amended sentence, particularly for "to boost", it is not clear in the original sentence who boosts what though...

Torsten wrote:
Here is another sentence that screams to be amended:
To do this we hand pick writers and moderators that are top of their field and offer them to you as members of your very own forums.

What do you think?

Thanks,
Torsten

Let me dare to edit this one. I think this should sound like this: "To do so, we offer writers and moderators who are the guru of their profession to become members of your forums." Hope this sounds OK.

Please, let me know what you think.

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