Which one suits better?Why?
It was Miriam’s birthday
1on Friday. And she was given some expensive perfume, a box of swiss
chocolates, and a fur-lined coat and a beautiful leather handbag from
Italy.
2 on Friday, she was given some expensive perfume, a box of Swiss
chocolates, and fur lined coat, and a beautiful leather handbag from Italy.
3 on Friday, and she was given some expensive perfume, and a box of
swiss chocolates, and a fur-lined coat and a beautiful leather handbag
from Italy
4 on Friday and she was given some expensive perfume, a box of Swiss
chocolates, a fur-lined coat and a beautiful leather handbag from Italy
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Answers · 6
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Hi Anya
Sentence number four is the best one, for my money ("for my money," means in my opinion).
It sounds better to just use one sentence, rather than have two sentences where the first one just tells you that it was Miriam's birthday and then the second one tells you what she received. So that rules out sentences one and two. The main reason why I say this is that, if you use two sentences, the first one is extremely short "It was Miriam's birthday on Friday."
It sounds much more natural to use commas to separate the names of the things that she received than it does to say "she received this and that and this and that," as sentence three does.
So sentence four is best.
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Dear ,
You have done a great job. However, your numbering system is wrong.
Also you should observe punctuation criteria.
Swiss should be in capital letter.
http://www.ef.com/english-resources/english-grammar/period-full-stop-or-point/
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As matter of personal (and maybe cultural) style, I would say "It was Miriam’s birthday last Friday." To me, it sounds better to pair a past event with 'last', instead of 'on'. Both options are technically correct though.
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Thank you soo much))
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4)
Swiss, Italy, Friday are a proper nouns and needs a capital letter
use of "," is correct
use of "a" before nouns in the right way
no ",and"
:-)
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