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.
A. Increases or increase? Both correct?
B. Promised them or promised to them? Both correct?
C. Change "promised them" to "they were promised," is that better?
D. The firemen and the policemen. Can't skip the second "the?"
E. Anything else is wrong?
2. The police finally caught up with the kidnapper who had been passing out candies to children in the shopping malls.
A. Candies or candy. First choice?
B. In, inside or at shopping malls?
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?
D. Always plural after "police?"
E. Sentence 2. Children or the children?
F. Is anything else wrong?
Thanks a bunch.
bmo
A. Increases or increase? Both correct?
B. Promised them or promised to them? Both correct?
C. Change "promised them" to "they were promised," is that better?
D. The firemen and the policemen. Can't skip the second "the?"
E. Anything else is wrong?
2. The police finally caught up with the kidnapper who had been passing out candies to children in the shopping malls.
A. Candies or candy. First choice?
B. In, inside or at shopping malls?
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?
D. Always plural after "police?"
E. Sentence 2. Children or the children?
F. Is anything else wrong?
Thanks a bunch.
bmo