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Originally Posted by Alfonso
Thanks a lot, Rusty and Poli for your corrections and clarifying points of view. I guess I can get what's wrong and what's right from considering both corrections. I know it's not easy to correct a composition written by a foreigner, who mix(mixes) up different words and structures usages(word structures), both correct and incorrect.(A foreigner who is learning the language and don't consider(may not be considering), at the moment, different stylistic possibilities. It's enough for me to try to write correctly. That's why I beg you try to distinguish what's a grammatical correction from what's a stylistic one.
For example, I checked the verb to urge , and it does exist. So I guess that to be urged to do something is correct. Am I right?
What about April 23th / 23rd? Are both expressions correct, or only the second one?
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Alfonso,
To be urged to do something implica coersion.
Ejemplo: The salesman urged the customer to puchase the purple car.
Ejemplo: The father urged his daughter not to go out with her tatooed
and pierced boyfriend.
Urge as a noun means a compulsion. example:The alcoholic had an urge
to drink an entire bottle of orujo.
Synomyn for the verb urge is to metaphorical term: to twist your arm.
A higher tone verb is to prevail upon.
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Sometimes when we write we leave out the st,nd ,th. Example: I live in 43 Street, and I live on 43rd Street are both correct. In speaking you
must alway include the st, nd and th, or you will sound very foreign.