Please help me correct these 3 sentences?

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Could you please help me correct these 3 sentences?

- I don't like people of our on gender who use their looks to get money.
- What's the point of not going here if we have to go there. I wanted to stay home.
- What did she react badly to?/To what did she react badly?

Thank you

Victor_amelkin · Accepted Answer

Hi Alc,

> I don't like people of our on gender who use their looks to get money.

I do not understand this sentence, but from the grammatical point of view,
everything seems OK except "people of our on gender". Maybe it should have
been "people of our own gender"?!

> What's the point of not going here if we have to go there. I wanted
> to stay home.

Again, I do not understand the meaning of this sentence. The only thing
that seems dubious to me is that the first sentence uses present tense
and the second one uses the past tense. Depending of the meaning, it is
either a design or an error.

> What did she react badly to?/To what did she react badly?

What did she badly react to?
- colloquial, most common.

To what did she badly react?/To what did she react so badly?
- formal, uncommon (athough I use this variant from time to time since
it is peculiar to my native language).

I hope this will help you.

--
Victor

Sam1947 · Answer

I don't like people of our on gender who use their looks to get money.

- What's the point of not going here if we have to go there. I wanted to stay home.

- What did she react badly to?/To what did she react badly?

1. I don't like people of our own gender who use their looks to get money. (Correct)

(Victor, this is referring to men or women who use their looks to their advantage to either have someone else support them, or to obtain jobs they aren't really qualified for, or to cajol others into giving them money.)

2. This is a rather ackward sentence in writing, but is not incorrect, and might be something someone would say in conversation. Let's say Bob and Jim are discussing their evening plans. Bob wanted to stay home, but has to go to an event with Jim. They meet in front of a club Bob enjoys, and he wants to go in for a drink before they go to the event. Jim says they should not go into the club for a drink. Bob replies, "What is the point of not going here (into the club for a drink) if we have to go there (to the event)? (After all,) I wanted to stay home (tonight). In other words, "You've dragged me out to this event, and now won't even let me go into my club and have a drink before we go."

3. Either are correct. You'd probably be more likely to hear the first than the second in most circles in conversation. But, more likely would be, "What made her react so badly?" or, "What was it that she reacted so badly to?"

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