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I've an English gramma/language question.

 
 
Reply Wed 14 Sep, 2016 05:45 am
Hello,

I'm from Holland and I need to make a graphic design for my dad's trucks. But before I send it to the printer. Can anybody check if I made some mistakes?

Our Various marinades:
Our three flavours of marinade are so good because we use over 13 different herbs and spices.

Microwavable Spareribs:
Because of innovative techniques the pouch will open itselfs when the ribs are finished!


Thanks in advance!

Timo
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contrex
 
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Reply Wed 14 Sep, 2016 10:03 am
@TimoKleinhout,
Over 13 - do you mean 14?
ossobucotemp
 
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Reply Wed 14 Sep, 2016 10:33 am
@TimoKleinhout,
If you are going to capitalize words in each of the subject lines, then I would make the first one Our Various Marinades:
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contrex
 
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Reply Wed 14 Sep, 2016 11:01 am
@contrex,
contrex wrote:

Over 13 - do you mean 14?

We use 'over' with a round number to draw attention to large numbers or quantities - over 100 years old; over 50 flavours; over 1 million customers. 13 is neither large nor round.
contrex
 
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Reply Wed 14 Sep, 2016 11:55 am
@TimoKleinhout,
TimoKleinhout wrote:
Because of innovative techniques the pouch will open itselfs when the ribs are finished!

...open itself
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dalehileman
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Reply Wed 14 Sep, 2016 12:09 pm
@TimoKleinhout,
Our Various marinades:
Our Three flavours, of marinade are best because we use over 13 different herbs and spices.

Microwavable Spareribs:
Because of Our innovative techniques open the pouch will open itselfs when the ribs are done, finished revealing its magnificent contents!

Dunno if that helps much Tim but I'm kinda compulsive in the realm
saab
 
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Reply Wed 14 Sep, 2016 01:18 pm
@dalehileman,
Correct is
open itself - not itselfs
dalehileman
 
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Reply Wed 14 Sep, 2016 01:43 pm
@saab,
Quote:
not itselfs
Thanks Saab but that's how Tim spelled it
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dalehileman
 
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Reply Wed 14 Sep, 2016 01:47 pm
@contrex,
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'over' .... to...large numbers
Tim, Con has a good point here. You might wanna use the actual number instead
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roger
 
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Reply Wed 14 Sep, 2016 03:34 pm
Actually, I think "over 13" is good here. They have at least three products. Some might use 14 herbs and spices, while one may use 23.

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TimoKleinhout
 
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Reply Thu 15 Sep, 2016 01:55 am
Thank you all very much! I'm very grateful.
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izzythepush
 
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Reply Thu 15 Sep, 2016 07:44 am
@TimoKleinhout,
I would say our three marinades not three flavours of marinade. Clearly they're different flavours because there's three of them.
dalehileman
 
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Reply Thu 15 Sep, 2016 10:52 am
@izzythepush,
Tim, Izzy does have a point there
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Roberta
 
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Reply Sun 2 Oct, 2016 07:18 am
@TimoKleinhout,
TimoKleinhout wrote:



Our Various Marinades:
Our three flavours of marinade are (delete so) good because we use over 13 different herbs and spices.

Microwavable Spareribs:
Because of innovative techniques, the pouch will open itself (delete s) ]when the ribs are done![/b] Done is the word commonly used in cooking when something has finished cooking.

Thanks in advance!

Timo
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