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please help me to determine if these "s" s are needed

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Neoquixote
 
Reply Mon 17 May, 2004 08:33 am
Salaries for employees outside of the school of similar experiences levels vary largely in different fields because they do exceedingly different kinds of jobs. But teaching in different disciplines consumes almost same kinds of works.


1)i am not sure if these "s"s underscored should be used here, please give me a correct sentence with absolutely adequate usage of the nouns. thanks enough.
2) Is the "the" underscored at the first line used properly ?
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kitchenpete
 
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Reply Mon 17 May, 2004 09:30 am
"kindS of jobS" is correct

The second sentence is less good. I would suggest: "consumes almost the same level of effort".

The order of the first sentence is confusing, as the "outside of (the) school" makes me wonder - are these jobs taken by people who are still in school? just left school?

What is the purpose of the sentence?

KP
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Shekeda
 
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Reply Mon 17 May, 2004 09:43 am
Re: please help me to determine if these "s" s are
Neoquixote wrote:
Salaries for employees outside of the school of similar experiences levels vary largely in different fields because they do exceedingly different kinds of jobs. But teaching in different disciplines consumes almost same kinds of works.

1)i am not sure if these "s"s underscored should be used here, please give me a correct sentence with absolutely adequate usage of the nouns. thanks enough.
2) Is the "the" underscored at the first line used properly ?


Here is how I would write it (going by what I think you're trying to say)

"Salaries for employees outside the school with similar experience levels vary largely in different fields because (as?) they do exceedingly (completely?) different kinds of jobs. But teaching in different disciplines requires almost the same kinds of work."

Would this convey the same meaning that you want? ....

"Salaries for employees outside the school, with similar experience levels, vary largely as they do completely different kinds of jobs. Although teaching in different disciplines requires almost the same kind of work" [or] ".... requires almost the same type of work"

(or even: ".... vary largely as they do a completely different kind of job....")

Just my "take" on it. Can anyone else put it a better way?
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Neoquixote
 
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Reply Mon 17 May, 2004 07:37 pm
thank you pals, you all gave me useful suggestions
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Neoquixote
 
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Reply Tue 8 Jun, 2004 06:47 am
kitchenpete wrote:
"kindS of jobS" is correct


What is the purpose of the sentence?

KP

sorry i didn't notice this question, i wrote this sentence in my writing exercise. thank you.
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kitchenpete
 
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Reply Tue 8 Jun, 2004 08:11 am
NeoQ

No problem - it was only to understand the context of the writing, which can help determine suitable words/sentence structure.

I certainly wasn't stressed that you didn't answer!

Take care

KP
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Eos
 
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Reply Tue 8 Jun, 2004 08:36 am
Though experience levels may be similar, the salaries of employees within the school vary widely from the salaries of those outside the school, because of the difference in responsilbilities and the amount of time required for respective jobs.
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Neoquixote
 
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Reply Tue 8 Jun, 2004 04:58 pm
Eos wrote:
Though experience levels may be similar, the salaries of employees within the school vary widely from the salaries of those outside the school, because of the difference in responsilbilities and the amount of time required for respective jobs.
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oristarA
 
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Reply Tue 8 Jun, 2004 07:28 pm
Eos wrote:
Though experience levels may be similar, the salaries of employees within the school vary widely from the salaries of those outside the school, because of the difference in responsilbilities and the amount of time required for respective jobs.


The rewriting is very clear, but I think something has been missed out from the original sentence of the thread. That is: "though the jobs consume almost the same level of effort" should probably be added to the end of your sentence, Eos.
Of course you might have to rewrite it, making it perfect. Very Happy
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Eos
 
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Reply Tue 8 Jun, 2004 08:27 pm
If you think so. But I would use 'demand' rather than 'consume'.
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