Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
Grammar
Placement test question
0 I am a tutor for our local literacy council. We are working with 'practice' tests for entrance to a local community college. Tonight, we struggled with two of the answers given, and ask your assistance in helping us understand them. The 'sample' sentence (as 'corrected') was as follows: 02 br
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00 "These small-business owners, who make a living as shopkeepers or providers of services, face a problem common to proprietors everywhere: lack of access credit, particularly now the early start-up phase of an enterprise." 02 br
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00 My opinion is that it should be, "These small-business owners, who make a living as shopkeepers or providers of services, face a problem common to proprietors everywhere: lack of access 01 b 01 u 00 to 02 u 02 b 00 credit, particularly 01 b 01 u 00 during 02 u 02 b 00 the early start-up phase of an enterprise." 02 br
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00 Does anyone see WHY the 'corrected' version is considered grammatically correct? I would appreciate some help, as I do not want to mislead my student! 0-
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00 "These small-business owners, who make a living as shopkeepers or providers of services, face a problem common to proprietors everywhere: lack of access credit, particularly now the early start-up phase of an enterprise." 02 br
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00 My opinion is that it should be, "These small-business owners, who make a living as shopkeepers or providers of services, face a problem common to proprietors everywhere: lack of access 01 b 01 u 00 to 02 u 02 b 00 credit, particularly 01 b 01 u 00 during 02 u 02 b 00 the early start-up phase of an enterprise." 02 br
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00 Does anyone see WHY the 'corrected' version is considered grammatically correct? I would appreciate some help, as I do not want to mislead my student! 0-
Top answer
02 br 00 Without the "to" in "access to credit", you have "access credit" which would be "credit for access" or some such nonsense. 02 br 00 "now the early ... 02 br 02 br 00 CJ 0-
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0 I agree with your version. 02 br
00 Without the "to" in "access to credit", you have "access credit" which would be "credit for access" or some such nonsense. If anything, without the "to", the two nouns forming the compound noun should be reversed to give "credit access", which 01 u 00 could 02 u 00 be interpreted as "access to credit". 02 br
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00 Without the "to" in "access to credit", you have "access credit" which would be "credit for access" or some such nonsense. If anything, without the "to", the two nouns forming the compound noun should be reversed to give "credit access", which 01 u 00 could 02 u 00 be interpreted as "access to credit". 02 br
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0 I'd agree too. Another option would be "particularly in the early start-up phase" (though "early" seems redundant, with "start-up phase"). 02 br
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