Gabriel
small paragraph Hi, there I am writing an paragraph about a Brazilian linguist and I would like to know if there are many erros in the following paragph, especially in the following parts: "he also believes it to be natural that"; "acquire a meaning through(by) affixes linking/linked (that links) to the verb" Here it is: Louis Henrique, in his article “The verb and the noun sentence”, written in 1948, argues that “the so-called verbal morphemes” are related to the sentences as a whole, and not only to the verb”, but he also believes it to be natural that morphemes acquire a meaning through affixes (prefixes and suffixes) linking/linked to the verb. In this regard, the first thing that one should do when studying the structure of the Portuguese verbs is to spot their radical, taking into account that there is no variation in the radical of most verbs, Please, help me. Thank you so much!Please, I need to know my errors.
May 1, 2016 6:30 PM
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Your first sentence is really long. It might be classified as a run-on sentence. I would consider dividing it before 'but' by ending the first sentence there and starting the next one with 'He also believes..." Just a small suggestion. Michael's suggestion using a semi-colon (;) works well too. Punctuation should go inside the quotation marks.
May 1, 2016
Louis Henrique, in his article “The verb and the noun sentence”, written in 1948, argues that “so-called verbal morphemes” are related to sentences as a whole, and not only to the verb”; however, he also believes that morphemes naturally acquire a meaning through affixes (prefixes and suffixes) linked to verbs. In this regard, the first thing that one should do when studying the structure of Portuguese verbs is to spot their roots, taking into account that there is no variation in the roots of most verbs. It's much better to post these on Notebook as I can't show you my (small) changes here. You will have to read the text very carefully to spot them!
May 1, 2016
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May 1, 2016
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