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caroay
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Help with a sentence
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Hi dear ESLprintables friends! I need your help with the following sentence:
Traditional Prescriptive grammar is based on literary works of highly reputed authors.
Does it sound OK??
Thanks for your help! Carolina |
28 May 2010
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aliciapc
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Wouldn �t it sound better if you use "by" instead of "of" ? |
28 May 2010
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almaz
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Carolina, For a kick-off, I �d say that it �s not a collocation I would use. I would suggest highly respected or, if you must use repute, then I �d suggest �authors of high repute � (a bit dated) or �reputable authors � (I have to say, though, that some of my favourite authors are thoroughly disreputable).
Whatever term you use, however, bear in mind that �traditional prescriptive grammarians � tend to base their �rules � on whatever author or corpus that seems to support their peevish notions.
In my opinion. |
28 May 2010
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anaram
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I �m not a native speaker but I think reputed is "thought to be"and can be positive or negative, while reputable is positive; it sounds ok to me and the collocation is registered in the oxford collocations dictionary http://www.lixiaolai.com/ocd
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28 May 2010
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erdemoglu
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I think the sentence is ok!
"works of highly reputed authors." is a compound noun, so "of" is necessary according to the English Grammar. And the word of "reputed" is also an adjective. |
28 May 2010
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caroay
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Thanks everybody for your answers! It sounded to me a little "bookish" so to say... Alex, I agree with you on your view of prescriptive grammar... I was thinking of saying "highly reputed authors" between inverted commas! Thanks again! Carolina |
28 May 2010
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Apodo
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Traditional Prescriptive grammar is based on literary works of highly reputed authors.
As a native speaker I would write: I prefer number 1
1. Traditional Prescriptive grammar is based on the literary works of highly reputed authors.
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2. Traditional Prescriptive grammar is based on literary works by highly reputed authors. |
29 May 2010
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