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Sentence correction: Last sunday All my friends congregated at the party hall... Thu Apr 03, 2008 10:32 am  Sentence correction: Last sunday All my friends congregated at the party hall...
 

HI ,

I said to my friend : " last sunday All my friends congregated at the party hall and discussed about our college days"

Could you please inform me any grammar mistakes that i have made in the above sentences?

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Sentence correction: Last sunday All my friends congregated at the party hall... Thu Apr 03, 2008 11:07 am  Sentence correction: Last sunday All my friends congregated at the party hall...
 

Hi,

Some suggestions:

Last Sunday all my friends congregated at the party (held at the)hall and (discussed) talked about our college days (discussed our college days)

Remember the first person singular pronoun should be a capital letter I

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Sentence correction Thu Apr 03, 2008 11:19 am  Sentence correction
 

HI Alan,

You mean to say instead of "congregated" we have to use "held" in the below sentence

Last Sunday all my friends congregated at the party (held at the)hall and (discussed) talked about our college days (discussed our college days)

Could you give me explanation what is the difference in meaning "held" and "congregate" in the above sentence?

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Sentence correction: Last sunday All my friends congregated at the party hall... Thu Apr 03, 2008 11:21 am  Sentence correction: Last sunday All my friends congregated at the party hall...
 

Hi,

No, 'congregated' is all right. I wanted to say that: 'the party was held at the hall' because 'party hall' sounded unusual.

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Rewrite sentence Thu Apr 03, 2008 13:14 pm  Rewrite sentence
 

HI Alan,

Could you please rewrite the sentence which i had sent the previous Message

because if i write "the part was held at the hall" after congregated it doesn't look good .

and I am writing the sentence below this line

"Last Sunday all my friends congregated at the party (held at the)hall and (discussed) talked about our college days (discussed our college days) "

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Sentence correction: Last sunday All my friends congregated at the party hall... Thu Apr 03, 2008 13:24 pm  Sentence correction: Last sunday All my friends congregated at the party hall...
 

Hi Pavan,

Let's just say:

"Last Sunday all my friends congregated at the party, which was held at the hall and talked about our college days (discussed our college days)".

Al I was trying to do was find an alternative for 'party hall' but I don't really want to make a big issue about it.

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Rewrite sentence Thu Apr 03, 2008 14:09 pm  Rewrite sentence
 

Hi Alan,

Thanks for your response

Sorry , I didn't understand properly , it is my mistake

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Sentence correction: Last sunday All my friends congregated at the party hall... Thu Apr 03, 2008 22:05 pm  Sentence correction: Last sunday All my friends congregated at the party hall...
 

"last sunday All my friends congregated at the party hall and discussed about our college days"

Last Sunday my friends gathered at the party-hall and talked about our college days."

'L' to be made capital.
Sunday - The first letters of the names of days and months are normally written with capital letters.
All my frtiends- Can you say for sure?
Party-hall - to refer to the place where you usually attend or hlod parties, a well known place to all of you.
Talking about - is more casual in nature than discussing. The nature of the suject matter indicates 'talk' rather than 'discuss.'
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Sentence correction: Last sunday All my friends congregated at the party hall... Fri Apr 04, 2008 1:11 am  Sentence correction: Last sunday All my friends congregated at the party hall...
 

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All my frtiends- Can you say for sure?
Sure -- as long as the T is edited out. Wink

You can use talk about or discuss, Pavan. You cannot say 'discuss about'. I agree that 'talk about' fits your context better. 'Discuss' would sound too formal or serious.
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