Punctuation
English like any other language can be learnt, and you need not go to a university for that.
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English, like any other language, can be learnt, and you need not go to a university for that.
sanjay
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Sanjay, I will expand a bit on Shawn's excellent suggestion.
Shawn rearranged the sentence to make it more concise. I happen to like the rhythm of the original -- with the prepositional phrase interjected (or used as a parenthetical). But even in the original arrangement, the sentence could be more concise.
English, like any other language, can be learned without needing to go to a university.
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answered Jan 29 at 03:51
Jeff Pribyl
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Thank you, sir.
add commentTolley is absolutely correct that the prepositional phrase should be set off by commas, but he didn't notice that you provided two example sentences. To clarify his otherwise excellent answer, your second sentence is the correct one.
He also provided the North American past form of learn as an option. Just to be a little more clear, in North American English, learn is a regular verb and both the past and past participle form are learned.
English, like any other language, can be learnt, and you need not go to a university for that.
I myself might further revise it so as to make it more concise:
Like any other language, English can be learnt without needing to go to a university.
I hope this helps.
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answered Jan 28 at 22:43
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Thank you, sir.
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