It's really easy to correct someone's English but unless we can explain—or you can understand—why something is incorrect or better another way, just correcting you doesn't do you much good in the long run.
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Originally Posted by lapka
Position of various clauses is also a sad theme. All my instincts want to put them without any order in a sentence.
It's good that you recognize this because it's the only issue that stands out with your English: you generally have all the right words in the sentence, but they're not always in the right order. For example, instead of "all my instincts want to put them without any order in a sentence," we'd say, "all my instincts want to put them in a sentence without any order"; or actually, "all my instincts want to put them in a sentence without (any) regard to order," or "without worrying about order."
I don't know what the general rule is that determines the correct order in this case, other than it sounds right one way and not the other to a native English speaker. "In a sentence" and "without regard to order" are both adverb prepositional phrases, so how do we know which one comes first? I can come up with a lot of rules that are true in most cases, but they all seem to have some exceptions, so I'm not sure what the general rule is, probably something like
this.
Last edited by gregorio; 03-13-2018 at 02:02 PM.