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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I like Ezra’s with one change. Reason: “on demand” should be closer to the verb since (I assume) the fact that the shifting is on demand may be more important
than the different ways in which it can shift. Also can you do a colon then instead of a hyphen since it’s now a list of the spaces?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Shifting from asphalt to grass to photovoltaic cells, spaces can be dynamically reconfigured on demand - from city-street to park to energy<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Or perhaps it’s just too much info for one sentence:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Shifting from asphalt to grass to photovoltaic cells, spaces can be dynamically reconfigured on demand. A city street can turn into a park that becomes an energy source, and vice-versa.<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Many interesting proposals here. While agree among is the grammatically correct choice, I also think rewording is better.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Spaces can shift on demand from city street to park to energy source alternately configured with asphalt, grass or photovoltaic cells.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">(Kind of line reconfiguring the Garden from ice rink to basketball court?)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Mar 4, 2014, at 3:53 PM, William T. G. Litant <<a href="mailto:wlitant@MIT.EDU">wlitant@MIT.EDU</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">And I haven’t used a double-hyphen since the ribbon on my Underwood No. 5 wore out. ;)<br>
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On Mar 4, 2014, at 3:49 PM, David L Chandler <<a href="mailto:dlc1@MIT.EDU">dlc1@MIT.EDU</a>> wrote:<br>
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I like Ezra's rewriting of the sentence better than mine. But I vigorously dispute that use of a hyphen, which seems just wrong. (I think compound-noun is wrong too).<br>
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As usual when encountering a tricky usage question, I would try to<br>
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Shifting from asphalt to grass to photovoltaic cells, spaces can be<br>
dynamically reconfigured -- from city-street to park to energy<br>
source -- on demand.<br>
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(Also, note the introduction of the hyphen in "city-street" --<br>
although not everyone agrees on this point, I think it is important,<br>
since the noun city is being used as an adjective as part of a<br>
compound-noun.)<br>
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