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jenny699

April 18, 2021

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I have used many times "there are" really cumbersome. What other good ways can I replace it?



The product is the ball - point pen of the MUJI. I think it belongs to “Monopolistic competition”. There are two main things. First and foremost, there are many sellers in the production ball - point pen market. There are other production pens firms except MUJI. Because the barriers of production ball - point pen are few and lack of technical requirement. Unlike "Oligopoly" and "Monopoly", they have high barriers and few sellers. The firms can not do whatever they want in this market.

Secondly, the ball - point pen produced by each firms is slightly differentiated, though it is a ball - point pen for writing. Maybe some of them have many patterns, some of them have no patterns, some of them are written in blue, and others are written in black.

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I have used many times "there are" many times, and it seems really cumbersome.

Strange sentence, guessing what you mean.

I'll try to suggest alternatives!

What other good ways can I replace itsay this?

I think you've confused two sentence structures here. You could say what I suggest, or you could say "What are some good ways to replace it?" "replace" and "other" don't seem to work very well together - if you're asking for "other ways to replace it", that means you *already* have a way to replace it, and you want more, different ways.

The product is theMUJI's ball - -point pen of the MUJI.

Seems most natural. "of the MUJI" is wrong, you would say "by MUJI" or "from MUJI". But here we don't actually need to say either of these, we can just use the possessive.

I think it belongs to “Monopolistic competition”.

There are two mainI have two reasons to suggest things.

The original sentence was fine, but you wanted an alternative.

First and foremost, there are many sellers in the production ball - -point pen market has many sellers.

I'm not clear on why you had "production" in this sentence, it seems unnecessary. Apart from that, fine, but again you wanted an alternative.

I should mention that this thing you're doing where you write "ball - point" is wrong, definitely don't do that. Where we use a hyphen to form one word by joining two, we do not use spaces.

ThereMUJI are nother production pens firms except MUJI the only pen production firm.

The final alternative!

Corrected, the original sentence should be "There are other pen production firms besides MUJI". "except" doesn't fit.

Because the barriers tof production ball - -point pen production are few, and there is a lack of technical requirements.

Grammatically, I guess what's going on here is that "production" is the noun and "ball-point pen" is the adjective. So it should be in front. "Production ball-point pen" makes it seem like "production" is an adjective - like you are talking about pens that are used for production, or something.

Unlike "Oligopoly" and "Monopoly", theywhich have high barriers and few sellers.

You need the determiner "which" here. "Unlike ..., they have" makes it seem like you are saying that some previously mentioned thing has high barriers and few sellers, unlike oligopolies or monopolies.

You could say, alternatively: "This is unlike 'oligopoly' or 'monopoly'. They have high barriers and few sellers."

The firms can not do whatever they want in this market.

I would prefer "The firms in this market cannot do whatever they want", but I think what you have is okay, just feels a little loose.

Secondly, the ball - -point pens produced by each firms is are slightly differentiated, though it is athey are all ball - -point pens for writing.

I think "each" generally wants a singular noun, or for a member to be sort of picked out of a plural like this: "each of the firms". Hard to explain. Easier to explain why all these pens are plural: you're not talking about one pen, you're talking about all of them.

"differentiate" is weird here, though I haven't corrected it because I'm not sure it's wrong. Usually it's used like this: "A is differentiated from B by C", which means that you can tell that A is different from B by inspecting the feature C. Here I would just say "slightly different".

Maybe sSome of them have many patterns, some of them have no patterns, some of them are writtene in blue, and others are writtene in black.

You've used passive voice "are written" here, I don't know why you did this but you definitely shouldn't have :)

"Maybe" doesn't quite fit here. It makes it sound like you don't actually know that these are differences; you're just suggesting that they might be. You're leaving open the possibility that, for example, all pens write in black.

If you were comparing two *specific* pens, or two specific collections of pens, you might use "maybe". "Maybe one of them has many patterns and another has no patterns. Or maybe one of them writes in blue and others write in black." Here these are just suggestions. It's possible that both of the pens have no pattern and write in black, but one of these features *may* be the difference.

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I didn't think your "there are"s were cumbersome or even noticeable, personally, but suggesting alternatives was weirdly fun :)

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jenny699

April 19, 2021

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ThereMUJI are nother production pens firms except MUJI the only pen production firm.

THX!!!! but why we use except?

I searched for the difference, because "except" is subtraction, which item after "except" is excluded, while "beside" is bonus, which means that the latter item is "included"?

Can I use "apart from"?

Your comments have helped me a lot!

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jenny699

April 19, 2021

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Unlike "Oligopoly" and "Monopoly", theywhich have high barriers and few sellers.

love U❤️~

I just mentioned it

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secretpostman

April 19, 2021

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:)

That sounds right, "other pen firms besides MUJI" means we are already thinking of MUJI and we want to say that there are more pen firms, we're just trying to sort of add to the collection that we're referring to. "except" would be more appropriate if you were saying something like "Every pen firm, except MUJI, makes a blue pen." MUJI don't make a blue pen, so you want to exclude them. I can't exactly justify why it feels wrong here :( but it does.

"apart from" feels kind of in-between those two. I think you can use it in both senses. "There are other pen firms apart from MUJI" feels okay, and "Every pen firm, apart from MUJI, makes a blue pen" is definitely correct.

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I have used many times "there are" really cumbersome.


I have used many times "there are" many times, and it seems really cumbersome.

Strange sentence, guessing what you mean. I'll try to suggest alternatives!

What other good ways can I replace it?


What other good ways can I replace itsay this?

I think you've confused two sentence structures here. You could say what I suggest, or you could say "What are some good ways to replace it?" "replace" and "other" don't seem to work very well together - if you're asking for "other ways to replace it", that means you *already* have a way to replace it, and you want more, different ways.

The product is the ball - point pen of the MUJI.


The product is theMUJI's ball - -point pen of the MUJI.

Seems most natural. "of the MUJI" is wrong, you would say "by MUJI" or "from MUJI". But here we don't actually need to say either of these, we can just use the possessive.

I think it belongs to “Monopolistic competition”.


This sentence has been marked as perfect!

There are two main things.


There are two mainI have two reasons to suggest things.

The original sentence was fine, but you wanted an alternative.

First and foremost, there are many sellers in the production ball - point pen market.


First and foremost, there are many sellers in the production ball - -point pen market has many sellers.

I'm not clear on why you had "production" in this sentence, it seems unnecessary. Apart from that, fine, but again you wanted an alternative. I should mention that this thing you're doing where you write "ball - point" is wrong, definitely don't do that. Where we use a hyphen to form one word by joining two, we do not use spaces.

There are other production pens firms except MUJI.


ThereMUJI are nother production pens firms except MUJI the only pen production firm.

The final alternative! Corrected, the original sentence should be "There are other pen production firms besides MUJI". "except" doesn't fit.

Because the barriers of production ball - point pen are few and lack of technical requirement.


Because the barriers tof production ball - -point pen production are few, and there is a lack of technical requirements.

Grammatically, I guess what's going on here is that "production" is the noun and "ball-point pen" is the adjective. So it should be in front. "Production ball-point pen" makes it seem like "production" is an adjective - like you are talking about pens that are used for production, or something.

Unlike "Oligopoly" and "Monopoly", they have high barriers and few sellers.


Unlike "Oligopoly" and "Monopoly", theywhich have high barriers and few sellers.

You need the determiner "which" here. "Unlike ..., they have" makes it seem like you are saying that some previously mentioned thing has high barriers and few sellers, unlike oligopolies or monopolies. You could say, alternatively: "This is unlike 'oligopoly' or 'monopoly'. They have high barriers and few sellers."

The firms can not do whatever they want in this market.


The firms can not do whatever they want in this market.

I would prefer "The firms in this market cannot do whatever they want", but I think what you have is okay, just feels a little loose.

Secondly, the ball - point pen produced by each firms is slightly differentiated, though it is a ball - point pen for writing.


Secondly, the ball - -point pens produced by each firms is are slightly differentiated, though it is athey are all ball - -point pens for writing.

I think "each" generally wants a singular noun, or for a member to be sort of picked out of a plural like this: "each of the firms". Hard to explain. Easier to explain why all these pens are plural: you're not talking about one pen, you're talking about all of them. "differentiate" is weird here, though I haven't corrected it because I'm not sure it's wrong. Usually it's used like this: "A is differentiated from B by C", which means that you can tell that A is different from B by inspecting the feature C. Here I would just say "slightly different".

Maybe some of them have many patterns, some of them have no patterns, some of them are written in blue, and others are written in black.


Maybe sSome of them have many patterns, some of them have no patterns, some of them are writtene in blue, and others are writtene in black.

You've used passive voice "are written" here, I don't know why you did this but you definitely shouldn't have :) "Maybe" doesn't quite fit here. It makes it sound like you don't actually know that these are differences; you're just suggesting that they might be. You're leaving open the possibility that, for example, all pens write in black. If you were comparing two *specific* pens, or two specific collections of pens, you might use "maybe". "Maybe one of them has many patterns and another has no patterns. Or maybe one of them writes in blue and others write in black." Here these are just suggestions. It's possible that both of the pens have no pattern and write in black, but one of these features *may* be the difference.

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