quick question: dose this sentence make sense?

Question

"Well first off, Xylophone’s name comes from the Greek prefix, xylon, which refers to wood. However its Greek meaning‘wooden sound’ and means, “the hitting of one body against another” The xylophone is part of the percussion family and is the root instrument of the marimba."- please tell me thanks,
-desperate 7th grader

Answer 1

Try this.

"The word "xylophone" comes from the Greek prefix xylon, which refers to wood. However its Greek meaning is actually "wooden sound" and refers to “the hitting of one body against another”. The xylophone is a member of the percussion family and is the main instrument of the marimba."

I hope this helps.

Answer 2

Well first off leave off the "Well first off." It sounds all right, but it's a little confusing. I think you should change it around a little.

The xylophone is part of the percussion family and is the root instrument of the marimba. It's name comes from the Greek word xylon, which means wood and phone which means voice or sound. So it's name is literally "wooden sound."

I'm not sure where you got the body hitting against another.

Answer 3

The word xylophone comes from the Greek. The prefix xylon refers to wood and means wooden sound, the hitting of one body against another. Third sentence is just fine.

You might want to say what phone means, i.e. prefix xylon and suffix phone.

Example: The prefix xylon refers to wood and phone means ____________. It means wooden...

Good luck!

Answer 4

I'm a 7th grader too and I'm in the spelling bee, so I know lots abot roots and prefixes and so on. Your sentence sounds absolutely fine.

Answer 5

Does that make sense? Sure it does. Any other questions?!

(If you're asking whether it's structurally correct, then no: you're missing a few punctuation marks.)

Answer 6

its greek meaning IS...

the sentence starting with however doesnt sound right somehow.

Answer 7

It makes perfect sense! Good job!