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A verb required for a situation. | English word for "aahat"
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A few lines about a shepherd. Sun Nov 18, 2007 18:02 pm  A few lines about a shepherd.
 

Hi

Could you please see if the following few lines sound OK to you? Any suggestions are welcome.

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A shepherd collects domestic animals, goats, sheep etc, from his area in the morning, walks them (around) into the fields or mountains, feeds them(makes them graze?) and returns them to their (respective?) owners by sunset.

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PS: How can I put graze in the above lines?
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A few lines about a shepherd. Tue Nov 20, 2007 16:45 pm  A few lines about a shepherd.
 

Hi Tom

Your description of what a shepherd does seems awkward to me, and I'm at a bit of a loss as to how best to improve it.

How about this:

A shepherd moves animals such as goats and sheep into fields or mountains, grazes them, and guides them back at sunset.

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A few lines about a shepherd. Tue Nov 20, 2007 18:28 pm  A few lines about a shepherd.
 

Hi Tom,

A few suggestions:

A shepherd gathers together his domestic animals, goats, sheep and the like/and so on in the morning from his area/compound, guides them into the fields or mountains, lets them graze and then returns them to their (respective?) owners by sunset.

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A few lines about a shepherd. Thu Nov 29, 2007 18:49 pm  A few lines about a shepherd.
 

Many thanks, Amy and Alan

@ Alan

Could you please tell me if the use of respective is wrong here?

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A few lines about a shepherd. Thu Dec 13, 2007 19:18 pm  A few lines about a shepherd.
 

Hi Tom,

'Respective' would work here but it's usually used with reference to nouns mentioned before. Perhaps 'separate' individual' might do as well. But no, on reflection, I'm overnitpicking. 'respective' is just fine.

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