[General] From this city to your hometown ...

[DANAU]

Hi,

I have constructed the sentence below, can let me know if it is acceptable.

“ From this city to your hometown there are only two routes - it is either via train or ship.”

I am trying to put the pronoun and verb in the middle of the sentence instead of at the beginning.

 

[tedmc]

Re: Sentence Structure

That is not how you use the word "via".

I would write:
To get from this city to your hometown, you can take either a train or a ship.

 

[DANAU]

Re: Sentence Structure

That is not how you use the word "via".

I would write:
To get from this city to your hometown, you can take either a train or a ship.

OK tedmc

“ From this city to your hometown there are only two routes.”

OK tedmc, noted the more concise way to write the sentence.
Can you also help to advise if the sentence above is grammaticallycorrect when I place “there are only two routes” at the back

of the sentence instead of at the beginning.

 

[tedmc]

Re: Sentence Structure

That is correct. It is better to put a comma after "hometown". Why talk about "routes" when you mean the modes of transport to get to the destination?

 

[Rover_KE]

Please note that I have changed your thread title.

Extract from the Posting Guidelines:

'Thread titles should include all or part of the word/phrase being discussed.'

 

[Tdol]

two routes - it is

There is an agreement issue here.

 

[emsr2d2]

Please stop putting a space after opening quotation marks. I'm getting a bit bored of correcting it.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Hi,

I have constructed the sentence below. Can let me know if it is acceptable?

“[no space]From this city to your hometown there are only two ways to travel: by train or ship.”

I am trying to put the pronoun and verb in the middle of the sentence instead of at the beginning.

Routes aren't modes of transportation. We travel via a route, and we travel by car, train, foot, or whatever.