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Sat Mar 29, 2008 21:08 pm Editing of a paragraph required

Hi

Could you please tell me if the following paragraph is natural and correct? Any suggestions are welcome.

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There are many things we do without there being a rule for them. For example, there is no rule as to on which hand we should wear our watch, but most of the people, say 80%, wear their watch on the right hand. Why? There is no correct answer.

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Sat Mar 29, 2008 23:00 pm Editing of a paragraph required

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Hi Tom

I'd like to make a few suggestions, and then let you do whatever rewording you think necessary:

- Use 'wrist' rather than 'hand'
- Use 'most people' instead of 'most of the people'.
- This group of words 'as to on' doesn't read very well and should be broken up somehow. There is no reason you couldn't put 'on' at the end of the clause. You could also use something other than the phrase 'as to'.

By the way, if that 80% figure of yours is correct, then I fall into the other 20%. Laughing

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Sun Mar 30, 2008 20:02 pm Editing of a paragraph required

Thanks Amy

How do you find it now?

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There are many things we do without there being a rule for them. For example, there is no rule about which wrist we should wear our watch on, but most people, say 80%, wear their watch on the right wrist. Why? There is no correct answer.

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Sun Mar 30, 2008 20:09 pm Editing of a paragraph required

Yankee wrote:

By the way, if that 80% figure of yours is correct, then I fall into the other 20%. Laughing

So do I. That is, so did I, when I used to wear a wrist-watch. Now I use my cell-phone Laughing

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