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| Do you think this sentence structure ( = word order) is ok? "All in all, they were trapped in their own flat as a result of racial hatred by white teenager gangs." Im not quite sure about it. Thanks for your help. Sandra |
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| . Yes, except the adjective is teenage. All in all is odd but acceptable, I suppose. . |
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| While it's true that "teenage" is an adjective, it is not the gang which is teenage, but the individual members of the gang. I think I would recast that part to "gangs of white teenagers". I, too, am not sure about "all in all". I think it might be better as "in short", but that depends on the wider context of the passage. |
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ex.: Everything being taken into account[ All in all] the criticism seemed fair. The problem in this sentence is with "white teenager gangs" All in all, they were trapped in their own flat as a result of racial hatred by gangs of white teenagers |
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