I can't take it anymore. Part 2 (sentence, tense, money, quote)
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From the local 'paper on visiting the Trinity Site (nuke weapon test in 1945):
" ... and waited for the Tulie Gate to open an hour later to make their way to the infamous atomic bomb testing site."
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"Although no information on the test was released until after the atomic bomb was used as weapon against Japan, but people downwind in the Village of Tularosa and other communities knew something happened."
I don't think infamous is the word they're looking for. It's hard to pick a definitive word there - incipient? Earthshaking? Nascent? There are too many strands of meaning competing there.
In the second quote, the word but could simply be deleted, & I think the sentence would be improved.
" ... and waited for the Tulie Gate to open an hour later to make their way to the infamous atomic bomb testing site."
I don't think infamous is the word they're looking for. It's hard to pick a definitive word there - incipient? Earthshaking? Nascent? There are too many strands of meaning competing there.
Infamous implies that something bad happened at the site, which I guess depends on your point of view. I would just use famous.
A common similar error I see is the use of notorious when famous is meant.
Quote:
"Although no information on the test was released until after the atomic bomb was used as weapon against Japan, but people downwind in the Village of Tularosa and other communities knew something happened."
In the second quote, the word but could simply be deleted, & I think the sentence would be improved.
The problem with that sentence is that but is a conjunction and needs to join two independent clauses. In that sentence the first clause, beginning in although is a dependent clause. That's why it looks awkward. We need either:
No information on the test was released until after the atomic bomb was used as weapon against Japan, but people downwind in the Village of Tularosa and other communities knew something happened.
Or the version deleting but that you gave.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Fox Terrier
"...culminating in a macob, brutal, dismembering..."
One can always identify the people who never picked up a book, much less read one.
I arrived at the same conclusion a long time ago. Many people seem to be trying to use words they have never seen in print.
And click your heels together three times and say, "there's no place like home."
You've got to be kidding. People don't know that ferries that provide transportation across the water are ferry boats and not fairy princesses? That is sad.
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