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teekayy
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 Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2008 8:29 am Post subject: Use of "I" in AWA |
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| I've read various books on the AWA and have gotten different answers. Are you allowed to use "I" and "In my opinion" in your essays? Is it frowned upon? |
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| i don't see 'I' matters here. |
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| Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 5:53 am Post subject: Re: Use of "I" in AWA |
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| teekayy wrote: | | I've read various books on the AWA and have gotten different answers. Are you allowed to use "I" and "In my opinion" in your essays? Is it frowned upon? |
Good question and I'll see it on my AWA score, because both essays I wrote yesterday were full with "in my opinion", "I believe", "my reason for this/that" and the like.
As far as I know the use of I is not prohibited. How do you express your opinion otherwise? With a "royal we"?  ? But then don't forget to mention in your essays that your great-great-grandma is the niece of Queen Victoria, who invented the "royal we"
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