Grammar Q & A Newsgroup

Click on Questions and Answers to see the newest messages. If you want to post a message or comment, you will be prompted to login. (If you are not registered, you can do so from the login box.) Remember to bookmark this page to make it easier to return to it.

    Grammar Exchange    Grammar Exchange  Hop To Forum Categories  The Grammar Exchange  Hop To Forums  Questions and Answers    verbally
Go
New
Find
Notify
Tools
Reply
  
  Login/Join 
Member
Posts: 142
Posted   Edit or Delete MessageReport This Post  
Hi!!

Once again, I would like to know if this sentence is correct 'this sentence is verbally correct'

Thanks!
Member
Posts: 11697
Posted   Hide PostEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post  
Since I'm not sure what it means, I'll have to say it's not correct.

Are you talking about the vocabulary used in the sentence? Are you talking about whether or not the vocabulary used is appropriate? If that's the case, perhaps it would be clearer if you said This sentence is lexically correct.

Actually, though, the sentence is awkward any way you look at it. It would be simpler and clearer to make the subject of the sentence not the sentence itself, but the element of the sentence that you're really focusing on. For example,

The vocabulary used in this sentence is correct

OR

The word choices found in this sentence are correct/appropriate.
  Powered by Eve Community  
 

    Grammar Exchange    Grammar Exchange  Hop To Forum Categories  The Grammar Exchange  Hop To Forums  Questions and Answers    verbally