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Discussion Groups / English Usage / January 2004sentence review please
In the sentence: And I know it's good idea to eat five times a day if you're cutting (massing too?). Assuming the sentence is OK (or O.K. or okay ;), because I'm sure you'll rewrite it for me, is the ending punctuation correct? HA! And you might as well take a stab at that last sentence too ;). Thanks, James James <REMOVmorris.570@osu.edu> wrote on 08 Jan 2004: > In the sentence: > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Assuming the sentence is OK (or O.K. or okay ;), because I'm sure > you'll rewrite it for me, is the ending punctuation correct? "And I know it's a good idea to eat five times a day if you're . . ." I have no idea what you mean by "cutting" or "massing". Neither word fits here, as far as I can tell. You need the indefinite article "a" in front of "good". And the punctuation is not okay: Why not just say "Xing or Ying" or "Xing and Ying", drop the parentheses, and drop the question mark?  SignatureFranke: EFL teacher & medical editor. > James <REMOVmorris.570@osu.edu> wrote on 08 Jan 2004: > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > "Xing or Ying" or "Xing and Ying", drop the parentheses, and drop the > question mark? Cutting body weight or adding body mass. This is bodybuilding jargon, unless I miss my guess. James is sure that eating five times a day is good when you're cutting, and that's the main substance of the sentence. He's pretty sure, but not quite, that eating five times a day is good if you're massing, and he's tossing the question up for discussion as an aside--thus the parentheses and question mark. If I've got the gist right, James, then I'd say the end of your sentence is punctuated pretty near it, except that sticklers for the old standard would set "too" off with a comma: "(massing, too?)". Franke is right about the article. SignatureCheers, Jody jodybilyeu@smsu.edu "Jody Bilyeu" <jodybilyeu@smsu.edu> wrote on 08 Jan 2004: [...] > Cutting body weight or adding body mass. This is bodybuilding > jargon, unless I miss my guess. Could be. The only bodybuilding jargon I'm familiar with is what I read in the Charles Atlas ads back in the 1950s when I first started lifting weights. I was a 98-pound weakling who needed to add muscles, not "body mass". Oh, and the normal grunts and groans that go along with jerks, lifts, curls, etc. SignatureFranke: EFL teacher & medical editor. |
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