She is a Roman Catholic and attends mass once a week other than having Roman Catholic beliefs she has no special beliefs.
2007-03-10 18:48:29 · 8 answers · asked by raine07 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
She is a Roman Catholic and attends mass once a week. She has no other special beliefs.
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She is a Roman Catholic and attends mass once a week; she has no other special beliefs.
Two "beliefs" in the same sentence is redundant.
"She is a practicing Roman Catholic, and attends mass once a week." is incorrect because of the superfluous comma. This is not a compoound sentence, so it would be improper to add the comma.
The sentence, "just put (.) between the two words (week . other)," fails to capitalize Other and would still have the redundancy cited above.
2007-03-10 18:55:06 · answer #1 · answered by danny_boy_jones 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Make two sentuces:
1. She is a Roman Catholic and attends mass once a week.
2. Other than having Roman Catholic beliefs she as no special beliefs.
2007-03-10 18:58:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
She is Roman Catholic, attends mass once a week and has no other special beliefs.
2007-03-10 19:00:30 · answer #3 · answered by Shale S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The most obvious problem is that it's a run-on sentence. That can be fixed simply by splitting it in two:
"She is a Roman Catholic and attends mass once a week. Other than having Roman Catholic beliefs she has no special beliefs."
The use of "Roman Catholic" and "beliefs" are both repetative, so it would help to change the wording a bit. I would also drop the "a" before "Roman Catholic," as "Catholic" is most often used as an adjective.
"She is Roman Catholic and attends mass once a week. Apart from Catholicism, she has no special beliefs."
At this point I would say that it's grammatically correct, so it's just a matter of style, but that phrasing seems awkward to me. I might say something more like:
"She attends Roman Catholic mass once a week, but has no specific religious beliefs beyond the Catholic faith."
Like I said, that last point is just a matter of style. The reasoning behind it mainly comes down to making things more concise, and avoiding vague adjectives.
While there's nothing wrong with saying "She is Roman Catholic and attends mass once a week," the alternative phrasing, "She attends Roman Catholic mass once a week" conveys the same information with a few less words and a simpler sentence structure.
Beliefs aren't usually refered to as "special," so it's not really clear what "special beliefs" would be. I took it to mean religious beliefs other than those of her stated relgion, but if that's not what you meant, you'd obviously want to go with different phrasing that what I suggested.
2007-03-10 18:59:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Two separate sentences.
She is a Roman Catholic and attends mass once a week.
Other than having Roman Catholic beliefs, she has no special beliefs.
2007-03-10 18:52:41 · answer #5 · answered by Chali 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
She is a Roman Catholic and attends mass once a week; other than having Roman Catholic beliefs, she has no other special beliefs.
2007-03-10 20:57:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
She is a practicing Roman Catholic, and attends mass once a week.
2007-03-10 18:53:18 · answer #7 · answered by lyllyan 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
just put (.) between the two words (week . other)
2007-03-10 18:54:53 · answer #8 · answered by live4hoping 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋