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can i use extinct here ?

 
 
Reply Thu 25 Sep, 2014 04:44 pm
This will only make this nationality to be extinct
can i use " extinct" to express that e.g a certain nation will be no longer exist .
By the way . im used to make a sentence everytime when i come across a new word, so it would be a totaly fiction sentence .... without any realistic basis .just hope by this way i can learn english much efficiently.
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fresco
 
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Reply Thu 25 Sep, 2014 07:47 pm
@Arafat ,
Yes, if you remove "to be".

This will only make this nationality extinct.

Also, I suggest....

"By the way , I am attempting to construct a sentence every time I come across a new word, so it would be a totally fictitious sentence. I just hope in this way I can learn English more efficiently."
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Reply Thu 25 Sep, 2014 10:01 pm
This will only cause this nationality to become extinct .

nationality = ethnic group??
Arafat
 
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Reply Sat 27 Sep, 2014 04:42 am
@fresco,
Thank for ur correction . so here. u put the adjective "extinct" after the noun. is there any rule when we should put an ajective after a noun ?
Arafat
 
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Reply Sat 27 Sep, 2014 04:44 am
@PUNKEY,
Yes..it should be ethnic group ...
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fresco
 
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Reply Sat 27 Sep, 2014 10:07 am
@Arafat ,
"To make (noun) (adj)" in your sentence is equivalent to "to cause (noun) to become (adj). There is a process in time involved in which the adjective is an end state of the noun.
Other process examples:
I'm going to have my piano tuned.
Adding vanilla will make this cake delicious.

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