Reply Sat 20 Apr, 2013 10:48 pm
Dearest English teachers,
please correct my English sentences below if there are errors. Thanks in advance.
The new invention that can track dengue virus is being complemented. Once it is factored in clinically. People may live more calmly.
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MontereyJack
 
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Reply Sat 20 Apr, 2013 11:31 pm
First sentence doesn't seem to make much sense--what do you think you mean here by "complemented"? Do you mean something like, "there is a new treatment"? Second sentence isn't a sentence--it's a sentence fragment. If there's a new medical treatment, people don't live "calmly", that indicates an emotional state, and you presumable are talking about a physical state, something like "in better health".
MontereyJack
 
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Reply Sat 20 Apr, 2013 11:32 pm
or do you mean "is being implemented", which means it is being put to use.
roger
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Reply Sat 20 Apr, 2013 11:33 pm
@Loh Jane,
The new invention that can track dengue virus is being complemented. Once it is factored in clinically. People may live more calmly.

Here's what I would do.

The new invention (maybe the word 'process' would be better) that can track dengue virus is being implemented. Once it is factored in clinically, people may feel more secure.

"People may live more calmly" is not wrong; it just feels foreign.
roger
 
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Reply Sat 20 Apr, 2013 11:34 pm
@MontereyJack,
Ya beat me again.
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Loh Jane
 
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Reply Mon 22 Apr, 2013 07:42 am
@roger,
Dearest roger,
the newspaper said someone would complement the new invention. I lost the newspaper. Maybe I read wrong.
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Loh Jane
 
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Reply Mon 22 Apr, 2013 08:01 am
@MontereyJack,
Hi Mon,
the 'complemented' meant enhances it.
roger
 
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Reply Mon 22 Apr, 2013 11:22 am
@Loh Jane,
If complemented is what they intended, I would ask "Complemented by what?"

MontereyJack
 
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Reply Mon 22 Apr, 2013 12:46 pm
roger's right; complemented doesn't work there.
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Loh Jane
 
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Reply Mon 22 Apr, 2013 04:17 pm
Hi all,
thank you.
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Loh Jane
 
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Reply Mon 22 Apr, 2013 04:24 pm
@roger,
Hi roger,
can I say 'Roger's explanation complements Jack's explanation perfectly'?
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Loh Jane
 
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Reply Mon 22 Apr, 2013 04:35 pm
@roger,
Hi roger,
please ignore my previous reply.
Can I say'Roger's explanation has complemented Jack's explanation clearly'?
roger
 
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Reply Mon 22 Apr, 2013 05:04 pm
@Loh Jane,
You might say Roger's was complemented by Jack's. I would rather use 'confirmed'.
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