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        	<title>writefix on Essay only, or individual sentences can be checked</title>
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        	        	<description><![CDATA[<p><strong>Hi abbakeer!</strong></p>
<p><strong></strong>Well, of course individual sentences can be checked  - but who&#039;s going to do the checking?!!!</p>
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<p>There are some fantastic writers in this forum and I&#039;m sure they would all have suggestions. </p>
<p>There&#039;s a similar thread here on the WordReference.com forum: <a href="http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=1007855&#038;p=6506292#post6506292 " rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=1007855&#038;p=6506292#post6506292 </a></p>
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<li>My house is situated twenty-minute walk away from the airport. </li>
<li>My house is situated twenty minutes walk away from the airport.</li>
<li>My house is situated twenty minutes&#039; walk away from the airport.</li>
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<p>If you really want to reduce the length, you could leave out  "situated" AND "away."</p>
<p>The first one needs an article because of the word &#039;walk&#039; - My house is <span style="color: #800000"><strong>a</strong></span> twenty-minute walk from the airport </p>
<p>We know a house is not a walk, so it&#039;s fine -  we understand what is meant.</p>
<p>The second would be fine as: My house is twenty minutes from the airport. Let a conversation start -  force the other person to ask "By car?" It could lead to a beautiful friendship.</p>
<p>I really wouldn&#039;t worry about the third one. If someone is worried about that level of grammar mistake, IELTS is not going to be a big problem in their lives. </p>
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<p>So to avoid the issue, I would go with these two</p>
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<li>My house is twenty minutes from the airport. </li>
<li>My house is a twenty-minute walk from the airport.</li>
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        	        	<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 14:44:12 +0400</pubDate>
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        	<title>abbakeer on Essay only, or individual sentences can be checked</title>
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        	        	<description><![CDATA[<p>Dear,</p>
<p>Can I post individual sentences to be checked. For example, these two sentences:</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">Which one is correct? Can "away" be removed from the sentence?</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000bf;font-family: comic sans ms;font-size: medium"><strong>My house is situated twenty-minute walk away from the airport. Or</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000bf;font-family: comic sans ms;font-size: medium"><strong></strong><strong>My house is situated twenty minutes walk away from the airport. Or</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000bf;font-family: comic sans ms;font-size: medium"><strong></strong><strong></strong><strong>My house is situated twenty minutes&#039; walk away from the airport.</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #0000ff;font-family: comic sans ms;font-size: small"><strong>Dear Sir,</strong></span></p>
<div><span style="color: #0000ff;font-family: comic sans ms;font-size: small"><strong>I am writing this letter in the hope that your newspaper can help me with a problem regarding</strong></span></div>
<div><span style="color: #0000ff;font-family: comic sans ms;font-size: small"><strong>the aircrafts&#039; very loud noise near the airport where I live.</strong></span></div>
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<div><span style="color: #0000ff;font-family: comic sans ms;font-size: small"><strong></strong></span></div>
<p><span style="color: #0000bf;font-family: comic sans ms;font-size: medium"><strong></strong><strong></strong><strong></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000bf;font-family: comic sans ms;font-size: medium"><strong></strong><strong></strong><strong></strong></span></p>
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        	        	<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 05:05:29 +0400</pubDate>
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