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Escape

first of all sorry that i have to bother you guys with this but i think you r the only people i can trust in the whole internet.

 i have to write a comment and this is the beginning... is this correct english?

 "The text that I am thouroughly commenting on the subsequently following paragraphs, explicitly handles with the controversial, serious issue which says that..."

thx for all serious answers and improvements!! dont blame me pls its important

 


kaspariano

"The following paragraphs thouroughly and explicitly deals with the controversial and serioius issue regarding...."

 seems more acurate to me

glubsch
Wie soll denn der Satz in Deutsch heißen?
erik
less is more. simple is better. things that are controversial are already generally considered serious. things that are thorough are probably already explicit. :)
Charlie91
Escape wrote:

...is this correct english?

 "The text that I am thouroughly commenting on the subsequently following paragraphs, explicitly handles with the controversial, serious issue which says that..."  Thx for all serious answers and improvements!! dont blame me pls its important 


 Following on your formal way of writing (is it legal in nature?), here's my translation with minor editing:

"What I am thoroughly commenting on (subsequent paragraphs) explicitly handles the controversial and serious issue, stating that..."  Of course as the other commentators mentioned, the simpler the better...  Wink  I think adding parentheses makes it simpler.


Juggalo_Mike

"The text that I am thouroughly commenting on the subsequently following paragraphs (no comma?) explicitly handles with the controversial, serious issue which says that..."

Limited first person is generally more formal

with the controversial and serious issue which states....

Avoid passive voice, use action verbs. 

Ex: The cat runs up the tree.

Not : The can is running up the tree.

Christmas will be on a Tuesday.

Not: Christmas falls on a Tuesday.  


batgirl
i have to write a comment and this is the beginning... is this correct english?

 "The text that I am thouroughly commenting on the subsequently following paragraphs, explicitly handles with the controversial, serious issue which says that..."

 

Not really. To be blunt, it contains grammatical error and style errors.

First, subsequently should be subsequent.

Second, subsequent and following mean exactly the same thing in this instance and using them together sounds silly to my ears.

Third, one cannot handle with. One can deal with or simply handle.

Fourth, controversial and serious need to be connected with and.

Fifth, thouroughly is spelled wrong. It's spelled thoroughly.

 

Without changing anything else in your statement, a more correct version would read something like:

The text that I am thoroughly commenting on in the subsequent paragraphs, explicitly handles the controversial and serious issue which says that..."

 

Ricardo_Morro

The text that I am thoroughly commenting on in the following paragraphs explicitly deals with the controversial, serious claim that . . .

Notes: "subsequently following" is redundant. Either "subsequent" or "following."

An "issue" does not say anything, especially if it is controversial, because it generally has two sides (or more). Usually one side says something that another side rejects, hence it is an issue. The correct word is difficult to choose without knowing what the subject is, but one side's "claim" that is behind the issue seems the probable word of choice.

I am a professional editor and former English professor. 


Ricardo_Morro
Also note that you don't want to divide the subject "text" from its verb "handles" or "deals with" by a comma. Subjects and verbs can only be divided by pairs of commas setting off  phrases or other interpolated elements or by the single comma that regulates a coordinate adjective in intervening matter.