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        	<title>writefix on A little confused about grammar</title>
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        	        	<description><![CDATA[<p>Hi Alison</p>
<p>You are right!</p>
<p>Here's the paragraph from the essay "<a title="Do we need so many languages?" href="/?p=370" target="_blank">Do We Need So Many Languages?</a>"</p>
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In conclusion, our native language is one way of expressing our ideas and worldview. If it’s useful, we should use it, but we should also realize that our identity and potential <span style="background-color: #ffff00">is</span> not limited to the geographical accident of our birthplace and native language. What’s more important is that we learn to think, reflect, and genuinely communicate with others, regardless of what languages we use.</p>
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<p>I'd probably change it to:</p>
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In conclusion, our native language is one way of expressing our ideas and worldview. If it’s useful, we should use it, but we should also realize that our identity and potential <span style="background-color: #ffffff;color: #800000"><strong>are</strong></span> not limited to the geographical accident of our birthplace and native language. What’s more important is that we learn to think, reflect, and genuinely communicate with others, regardless of what languages we use.</p>
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<p>If we wanted, we could change <strong>all</strong> the words to their plurals: identity to "identities", "potential" to "potentials", "accident" to "accidents," "birthplace" to "birthplaces",  "native languages", and so on.</p>
<p>But I don't think there's really a grammatical need to do it. The singular version is clearer and simpler, and the plural is understood.</p>
<p>Thanks for reading the essay and for being so eagle-eyed!</p>
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        	        	<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2012 11:25:05 +0400</pubDate>
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        	<title>alison32559905 on A little confused about grammar</title>
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        	        	<description><![CDATA[<p>Hi Enda</p>
<p>I read one of your essays: <a title="Do we need so many languages?" href="/?p=370" target="_blank">Do we need so many languages? (short)</a>, I have a questions about the plural</p>
<p>in the last paragraph, you wrote:  our (identity) and (potential) is not limited to the geographical (accident) of our (birthplace) and (native language).</p>
<p>These words, which are indicated in the parentheses, don' t need to plus a "S", such as identities, why?</p>
<p>I am a little confused, (our) +(identities)</p>
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        	        	<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2012 10:24:00 +0400</pubDate>
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