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Originally Posted by bmo 1. Delaying the firemen and the policemen the salary increases promised them a year ago due to current budget crisis is a political hot potato nobody wants to touch. |
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Originally Posted by bmo A. Increases or increase? Both correct? |
Increases. (There is more than one individual involved.)
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Originally Posted by bmo B. Promised them or promised to them? Both correct? |
They are both correct.
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Originally Posted by bmo C. Change "promised them" to "they were promised," is that better? |
I see no improvement, since the way the sentence is phrased in the first instance makes it perfectly clear what is meant.
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Originally Posted by bmo D. The firemen and the policemen. Can't skip the second "the?" |
I think you can skip the second "the", but I like the symmetry. :wink:
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Originally Posted by bmo E. Anything else is wrong? |
The original sentence is perfectly fine. (Say: "Is anything else wrong?")
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Originally Posted by bmo 2. The police finally caught up with the kidnapper who had been passing out candies to children in the shopping malls. |
Good. :wink:
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Originally Posted by bmo A. Candies or candy. First choice?? |
Either one.
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Originally Posted by bmo B. In, inside or at shopping malls? |
We would normally say "at the shopping mall", but the sentence as written would be understood.
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Originally Posted by bmo C. "Caught up with" is apprehended, correct? If the police were now at the vicinity where the kidnapper was, but have not apprehend the person yet, how do you say it then? |
My initial impression upon reading "Caught up with" was that he had indeed been apprehended. However, that phrase seems to say that the police have found him but they have not yet arrested him. If the police are at the vicinity where the kidnapper was, but have not apprehend the person yet then I guess the best you can say is that they are on his trail. In other words, they are still looking for him.
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Originally Posted by bmo D. Always plural after "police?"
E. Sentence 2. Children or the children?
F. Is anything else wrong? |
1. Yes.
2. Use "the" if you are talking about some specific children. Otherwise, do not.
3. No.
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