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kiriman

24 Nov 2014

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This particular variety of cherry trees, which constitue almost 90 per cent of today's sakua in Japan, are not capable of producing offsprings from their seeds. They have been all grafted for generations, meaning they are all clones. klingt das natürlich?

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staccato

25 Nov 2014

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Unnatürlich

I think the most important thing to correct if only making one correction from your original sentence would be changing "offsprings" to "offspring". "Offspring" is one of those English words which has an invariable single/plural form, so it sounds very unnatural to a native English speaker's ears to hear "offsprings". If you made this one change, the rest of the sentence is okay, I just added a few changes that I thought made it sound better.

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christianbrice

24 Nov 2014

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Etwas unnatürlich

Almost totally correct! The last sentence sounds nicer if you say: They have all been grafted for generations, meaning they are all clones.

staccato

24 Nov 2014

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Unnatürlich

It should be:
"This particular variety of cherry tree, which accounts for almost 90% of today's sakura in Japan, is not capable of producing offspring from their seeds. For generations the trees have been raised through grafting, meaning that they are all clones."

kiriman

25 Nov 2014

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Thank you four your comments.

Staccato-san, which correction do you think is more important, single/plural issue, or 'been grafted' vs 'been raised through grafting' part?

staccato

25 Nov 2014

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Unnatürlich

I think the most important thing to correct if only making one correction from your original sentence would be changing "offsprings" to "offspring". "Offspring" is one of those English words which has an invariable single/plural form, so it sounds very unnatural to a native English speaker's ears to hear "offsprings". If you made this one change, the rest of the sentence is okay, I just added a few changes that I thought made it sound better.

kiriman

25 Nov 2014

Japanisch

Now I understand very well. Thank you so much!

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This particular variety of cherry trees, which constitue almost 90 per cent of today's sakua in Japan, are not capable of producing offsprings from their seeds. They have been all grafted for generations, meaning they are all clones. klingt das natürlich?

Almost totally correct! The last sentence sounds nicer if you say: They have all been grafted for generations, meaning they are all clones.

It should be:"This particular variety of cherry tree, which accounts for almost 90% of today's sakura in Japan, is not capable of producing offspring from their seeds. For generations the trees have been raised through grafting, meaning that they are all clones."

It should be:
"This particular variety of cherry tree, which accounts for almost 90% of today's sakura in Japan, is not capable of producing offspring from their seeds. For generations the trees have been raised through grafting, meaning that they are all clones."