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Is the sentence grammatical?

 
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u911859



Joined: 16 Apr 2009
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Location: Taiwan

PostPosted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 7:06 pm    Post subject: Is the sentence grammatical? Reply with quote

Hi,

Is the sentence "Chao does not point out explicitly what feature the adjective moves to the head position of DegP to check" a grammatical sentnece?
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dragn



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PostPosted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 3:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Is the sentence "Chao does not point out explicitly what feature the adjective moves to the head position of DegP to check" a grammatical sentnece?


I don't know about anybody else, but personally I can't make enough sense out of it to even tell. Sad

Greg
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scottish_tiger



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PostPosted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 10:02 am    Post subject: a little bit more info please Reply with quote

It would help if you could tell us in what context you want to use this sentence, or you could let us know what you are trying to say and then we can make some suggestions to help you.

But I agree with dragn, that as it is written currently that the sentence is not gramatically correct. In fact it appears to be just a collection of words strung together. Almost like someone has taken a thesaurus to a sentence and changed every word of another sentence.

Good luck

Scottish Tiger

PS I will be in Singapore for a month doing some consultancy work, but will look at this post to see if I can help you further.
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