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Sentence Structure? - Sukey
Posted: Jun 25, 2010
"Seven screws were used 6 of them bicortical in the most distal unicortical cancellous screw."
Does this make sense? Should there be a comma or semicolon between used and 6?
I would put a comma between used and 6 and - sm
[ In Reply To ..]between bicortical and in If your spellcheck has a grammar check, turn it on and it will help with things like this.
Slightly different take - s/m
[ In Reply To ..]I'm hear-reading that sentence differently than you.
Seven screws were used, six of them bicortical and the most distal a unicortical cancellous screw.
in this case you have to put a comma after biocortical. - seeins
[ In Reply To ..]but I agree more with the "sm" poster.
No comma necessary - s/m
[ In Reply To ..]If you only have two objects (in this case the bicortical screws and the unicortical screws) separated by the word 'and', no comma is used.
I type at least three of these a week and stand by my response, but if you feel sm's is correct, it's no skin off my teeth since it's not my QA.
Thanks for ALL of your replies - Sukey
[ In Reply To ..]I relistened to the dictation and he is definetly saying "bicortical AND the most distal A uncortical cancellous screw". I would have never picked up on that if it hadn't been for all of your help.
Thanks again.
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