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[Ashiuhto]

Please check out the following sentence. Is it acceptable?

Top priority is given to character of the applicants.

 

[emsr2d2]

Please check out the following sentence. Is it acceptable?

Top priority is given to the character of the applicants.

See above. You need to add "the".

 

[5jj]

Top priority is given to the character of the applicants.

emsr2d2 corrected the grammar, but it is still a very strange thing to say.

 

[emsr2d2]

Top priority is given to the character of the applicants.

emsr2d2 corrected the grammar, but it is still a very strange thing to say.

Very true. I must admit I didn't really consider the content.

 

[5jj]

Very true. I must admit I didn't really consider the content.

I find that I do that at least once a week.. I think it's one of the things that happens to some of us.

When I was a teacher trainer, I constantly had to point out to trainees that it probably wasn't a good idea to praise effusively a student who had just uttered a totally meaningless collection of words. Their defence was often, "Well, it was grammatically correct - that's what I was praising".

Colorless green ideas still sleep furiously.

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