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Sky

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« on: June 07, 2010, 09:03:38 PM »
Please explain the following statement below and write it into plain and simple English if you can. Thanks.

"The buliding area of one school of MOE school construction project is 5541.12m2, among which the building area of single teaching building with three-story frame structure is 4716.22m2,the buliding area of single one-story gym with sphere structure roof with is 842.9m2."

Joe Carillo

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Re: Help...
« Reply #1 on: June 07, 2010, 11:41:05 PM »
“The buliding area of one school of MOE school construction project is 5541.12m2, among which the building area of single teaching building with three-story frame structure is 4716.22m2,the buliding area of single one-story gym with sphere structure roof with is 842.9m2.”

That sentence is actually an attempt at plain and simple English, but it was apparently written by a nonnative English speaker with very rudimentary skills in English syntax and sentence construction as well as in spelling and style conventions. It’s an example of the so-called comma splice, which we will recall is a form of the fused or run-on sentence. A fused sentence is formed when two or more clauses are improperly linked or wrongly punctuated, resulting in a confusing statement.

We can easily clarify that sentence by spinning off its three improperly linked clauses into separate sentences, by correcting the spelling of “buliding” to “building,” and by restyling the measure “m2” to “square meters.” For our sentence reconstruction, we will presume that the acronym “MOE” is for “Ministry of Education” and we will use it as spelled out to give readers a better idea of the context of the sentence.

So here now is my suggested reconstruction of that fused sentence:

“In the Ministry of Education’s school construction project, each school building has an area of 5,541.12 square meters (sq m). Every teaching building has a three-story frame structure with an area of 4,716.22 sq m. The school also has a one-story gym with a spherical roof that has an area of 842.9 sq m.”

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« Reply #2 on: June 09, 2010, 10:00:12 AM »
Thanks, sir Joe.