Do You Understand This English Sentence?

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Another example of the sentence is this:

The university houses married and single students and their families.

The word “complex” can have multiple meanings depending on the context.

I learned a new topic in this lesson.
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Lesson No. 3 Explanation

“The complex” means a group of similar buildings on the same site.

“Houses” means accommodation.

Thanks, I mean the “collection” is an organization or department that accommodates soldiers
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Fatemeh, thanks for providing your answer. Please explain the meaning of “collection” in your first answer. The second answer is not correct. You are close in your first answer.

Hello Mr. Alston
I think that means is: “A collection that accommodates married and single soldiers with their families” or “A place where single soldiers marry in front of their families”
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Lesson No. 3: “The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families.”

Question: Can you explain the meaning of the above sentence?

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You all have corrected the sentence, too=to, by=buy, their=there, recieve=receive and rainchek=rain check. However, Amira discovered another correction, weren’t=wasn’t.

Both words are contractions (abbreviations) of two words, i.e. weren’t=were not, wasn’t=was not. Because it is something that occurred in the past, wasn’t is the correct word to use.

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Hello Mr. Alston
I think this sentence is correct: I went to the store, but there wasn’t any coffee to buy, so I received a rain check
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Hi Mr. Alston,

It’s due to homonyms like Urszula said, but I can add some grammatical and spelling errors. I think it should be “I went to the store but there wasn’t any coffee to buy, so I received a rain check” 

Hello, I think the presence of some homonyms makes the sentence unclear. I suppose it should look like this : I went to the store but there weren`t any coffee to buy,so I received a rain check. 

By the way, I`ve just learned what “rain cheeck” means. Thank you !

Lesson No. 2: “I went too the store but their weren’t any coffee to by, so I recieved a rainchek.”

Question: There are 5 errors in the above sentence, can you find them and write a corrected sentence?

Sally, you are correct. The comma placement can make a vast difference in understanding written English. In spoken English, the speaker would pause slightly.

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Hello, my  great teacher!  There should be a comma after the word “ate”.

Amira, Bingo! You got it. The purpose is to show the importance of comma placement, and to help you to become a careful reader.

In the sentence, there are 2 thoughts (clauses). One thought is, “While Bob ate” and the other thought is, “an apple was in the basket.”

Any other way, the sentence doesn’t make sense.

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Hi Mr. Alston,

like “While Bob ate, an apple was in the basket”?

Hello Amira, thanks for your answer. However, to understand this sentence, consider these two hints:

It requires where you place a comma.

Did Bob necessarily eat an apple?

Hi Mr. Alston,

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I think it means when Bob ate an apple that was previously in the basket!

Lesson No. 1: “While Bob ate an apple was in the basket.”

Question: Can you explain the above sentence?

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