Can you please check these few sentences for me? Thank you very much.
1) Walter Pater, the theorist of the aesthetic movement, believed that art shouldn't have any didactic purpose. It should be devoted to the cult of beauty.
2) The task of the poet was therefore to to feel sensations and not to describe the world. He believed that pleasure, whih he considered the greatest goal in life, derived from the indulgence in the beautiful.
3) Can you say : Decadent writers aimed at feeling sensations rather than at describing the world.
1. OK
2. 2 commas needed; sp? >> which
3. I'd say they aimed for creating sensations in their readers...
Sure! I'd be happy to help you check these sentences. Here are the corrections:
1) Walter Pater, the theorist of the aesthetic movement, believed that art shouldn't have any didactic purpose. It should be devoted to the cult of beauty.
- The sentence is grammatically correct and conveys the intended meaning.
2) The task of the poet was therefore to feel sensations and not to describe the world. He believed that pleasure, which he considered the greatest goal in life, derived from indulgence in the beautiful.
- The sentence is grammatically correct, but there was a minor typo ("whih" instead of "which") which has been corrected. It now conveys the intended meaning.
3) Can you say: Decadent writers aimed at feeling sensations rather than describing the world.
- The sentence is grammatically correct, but there was a minor word order change. It is more common to place the direct object "the world" after the verb "describing." Here's the revised version: "Can you say: Decadent writers aimed at feeling sensations rather than describing the world?"
I hope this helps! If you have any more questions or need further clarifications, feel free to ask.