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[Chinavivian]

"colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints", please analyze this sentence for me, i can hardly get it across

 

[Matthew Wai]

https://www.usingenglish.com/forum/...t-as-convents-hate-saints?p=894762#post894762

Not a teacher.

 

[emsr2d2]

"Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints." Please analyze this sentence for me. I can hardly [strike]get it across[/strike] understand it.

As you have been shown, this has already been answered. Please also see my corrections to your post above. Remember the following rules of written English:

- Start every sentence with a capital letter.
- End every sentence with a single appropriate punctuation mark.
- Always capitalise the word "I" (first person singular).
- Do not put a space before a full stop, comma, question mark or exclamation mark.
- Always put a space after a full stop, comma, question mark or exclamation mark.

 

[Matthew Wai]

Welcome to UsingEnglish.com, Chinavivian!

Please note that a better title would have been 'Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints'.

Extract from the Posting Guidelines:
'Thread titles should include all or part of the word/phrase being discussed.'

I am not a teacher.

 

[Matthew Wai]

'Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints, because colleges and convents are eclipsed by geniuses and saints respectively.'
May I say so?

Not a teacher.

 

[emsr2d2]

No. You can't just take someone's quote and add a load of words to it. What benefit do you think your version has?

 

[Chinavivian]

Thanks for your suggestion.I'll take it.;-)

 

[emsr2d2]

Thanks for your suggestion.I'll take it.;-)

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