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redmike
Joined: 19 Apr 2008
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Location: Tel Aviv
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| Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 6:26 pm
Post subject: Too, plus, also and as well .. |
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I often ask myself about the use of words such as, also, too, plus and as well, in the same sentence.
Below is a wishful example that I just put wrote.
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Would the above paragraph be considered grammatically correct?
Should this type of syntax be avoided?
thanks,
Michael
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slobone
Joined: 03 May 2008
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| Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 2:50 am
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| It's not a question of grammar or syntax, but just of redundancy, clunky style, or rhetorical overkill. Generally not a good idea to put too many modifiers in the same sentence. |
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redmike
Joined: 19 Apr 2008
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Location: Tel Aviv
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| Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 5:06 am
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| slobone wrote: | | It's not a question of grammar or syntax, but just of redundancy, clunky style, or rhetorical overkill. Generally not a good idea to put too many modifiers in the same sentence. |
Thanks.
Hopefully everyone understands that the sentence was put together in order to establish what is and isn't posssible with regard to grammar and syntax and wasn't meant to be an example of my literary skills 
Mike
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