At 10:45 AM 06/10/00 +0300, you wrote:
>Hello everybody,
>dear I ask here a linguistic question?
>A friend of mine who produces sweet-boxes in Lithuania,
>asks me which sentence on a box wpuld be more correct:
>"The product was made of raw material"
>or
>"The product is made of raw material",
>or
>"The product is made from natural raw material"?
>Or please tell me where on the Internet could I ask this kind of
>questions.
Solely from a stylistic point of view, "material" is more commonly used for
manufactured items other than food. For food items, "ingredients" is more
common in English. So, possible alternative wording might be:
"This product is made with natural ingredients.", or
"This product is made exclusively with natural ingredients." if that is the
case.
The word "exclusively" is not quite apt but is commonly used in this wording.
I hesitate to volunteer an answer that you have not asked for, so I'll head
for the bomb shelter now. :)
Robert Turnbull, Toronto, Canada
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