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lost_soul
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 Mon Jan 28, 2008 22:41 pm Find mistake: The dense Belgian fogs, like the most inland fogs... |
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I'm not sure I understand exactly what you mean but the second sentence would sound more natural if you replaced 'unleashed' by 'released'. The sense of 'unleash' is to release an animal or force of great energy and power e.g. 'unleash the dogs', 'unleash the power of a nuclear bomb'
...so not really appropriate to a turtle! |
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| Mon Jan 28, 2008 23:08 pm Find mistake: The dense Belgian fogs, like the most inland fogs... |
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| duc wrote: | HELP ME.
THANK IN ADVANCE  |
This should read "Help me, please. Thanks in advance". Also, what do you mean by "laughing out loud"?
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| Tue Jan 29, 2008 1:51 am Find mistake: The dense Belgian fogs, like the most inland fogs... |
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Hi Duc
| Quote: | | Here is an excercise I want to consult you about. I was supposed to find the correct mistake in each sentence below: |
In your text above, my suggested corrections are in blue, and anything in red should be deleted.
| Quote: | 1. The dense Belgian fogs, like the most inland fogs, ared caused by the cooling of humid surface air to a relatively low temperature.
2. If unwanted pet turtles are unleashedreleased into the wild, many will die and those which exist persist/survive will threaten the lives of native plants and animals. |
In your two sentences, errors are in red and should be deleted. Questionable usage is in orange, and my suggestions/corrections are in blue. I did not attempt to correct anything that might be factually incorrect.
| Quote: | | In the first sentence, the answer is ''relatively''.,but I don't would like to know how to correct it although I don't have to. |
Grammatically speaking, there is nothing wrong with the way 'relatively' was used. If the word 'relatively' was seen as being factually incorrect, possibly they wanted you to replace it with a word such as 'sufficiently'. I'm not an expert on fog and humidity, but the use of 'relatively' in your sentence doesn't jump out at me as an obvious factual error.
| Quote: | | It is just the same with the second sentence; ,the answer is ''unleashed'' but how to do I correct it? |
As Anchorman mentioned, the word 'unleashed' is not used particularly well. The word 'released' would be much better.
As lost_soul mentioned, the word 'exist' is not appropriately used. You could use 'persist' or 'survive' instead.
Was this exercise taken from the same book that you have mentioned in other posts?
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| Tue Jan 29, 2008 6:07 am Find mistake: The dense Belgian fogs, like the most inland fogs... |
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Thank you very much .I am not very good at writing and maybe I typed to fast and didn't read again. But anyway I am very pleased to received your suggestions.Thank you
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) in my opinion the word "caused" in the first sentence seems suspicious (I don't know what word to replace it with) 
