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Tostyle un Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Are these correct?

I was rude to this girl and I also put her through a lot of agony.

"I will compensate for my rudeness."

"I will compensate for your agony."

Please give such more examples.
  

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I was rude to this girl and I put her through a lot of agony . I will compensate for my rudeness . OK.

— Vsuresh

  • I was rude to this girl and I put her through a lot of agony .
  • I will compensate for my rudeness .
  • OK.
  • I will compensate for the agony I have caused .
  • This sounds proper to me.
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I was rude to this girl and I put her through a lot of agony.

I will compensate for my rudeness. OK.

I will compensate for the agony I have caused. This sounds proper to me.

Please give more such examples.
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How about this?

"I will compensate for the pain and sufferings I have put you through."
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I think it is grammatical.

But compensate sounds a little unnatural to me here.

To me compensate sounds natural here

I will compensate for the lessons I miss teaching you now by conducting extra lessons after school.

I think native speakers will have more to say about it.
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