little help in English

laura · Post by **laura** » 02 Mar 2004 10:13

Hello everybody!

I have a little doubt on how to construct or whether corrections are needed in the phrase below:

The Y;Group was created in 1997, under a cooperative form, up to become an important Society in the 2003.

Thanks. (up to become..... is that right?)
Thanks in advance,
Laura

foryoureyesonly · Post by **foryoureyesonly** » 03 Mar 2004 11:58

"Up to become" doesn't make much sense. What are you trying to say?

Beaumont · Post by **Beaumont** » 03 Mar 2004 12:16

until it became ?

foryoureyesonly · Post by **foryoureyesonly** » 03 Mar 2004 13:00

Beaumont wrote:until it became ?

Maybe...

Let us hope Laura writes in.

laura · Post by **laura** » 03 Mar 2004 13:39

thanks to both of you!
up until it became is all right....

ps. f......, go to Voyages and read what I have written with regard to Albania.

Bye

captncavern · Post by **captncavern** » 03 Mar 2004 14:22

I would put "..., and has grown up to become...", what do you think of it ?
And I don't think Society is appropriate here, maybe Company, or Firm, would do better.

jk190778 · Post by **jk190778** » 04 Mar 2004 07:29

The Y Group was created in 1997 under a cooperative form until it became an important Society in 2003.

take the semi-colon out of Y;Group
remove you other two commas
fix "in the 2003"

laura · Post by **laura** » 04 Mar 2004 10:00

thanks jk.....

foryoureyesonly · Post by **foryoureyesonly** » 04 Mar 2004 18:10

Laura,

Did you mean to say that the Y Group was initially registered as a cooperative and that it was later changed to a Society? If that is the case, the second half of the sentence has to be reworded.

Do let us know.

Glad to be of any help,

4YEO

jeff · Post by **jeff** » 13 Apr 2004 09:39

Laura

You can't use "until it became" to fix that sentence. It makes it sound like the group was being created right up to the time that it became a society. Also, you should not capitalize "society". May I suggest the following:

"Created under a cooperative format in 1997, the Y Group became an important society in 2003."

This is less awkward than the original, because it has only 1 pause in the rythm. Also, your original question of "up to" or "until" doesn't even occur here.

"under a cooperative form" is a bit odd, because you generally use "in" with "form". However, if you use "format", which I hope serves as well for your meaning, you can use "under" and avoid repeating "in" twice.

jeff

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little help in English

little help in English

up until it became

thanks

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