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Heralding Heretic Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

A duration

Greetings and salutations,

Is the following sentence grammatically correct?

The cycling trip had a duration of twenty miles.

Word gets angry when I write this, yet it sounds correct to me.

Thanks.
  

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Heralding Heretic Is the following sentence grammatically correct? It is grammatically correct, but the word usage is wrong since "duration" refers to time. Heralding Heretic Word gets angry when I write this, yet it sounds correct to me.

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  • Heralding Heretic Is the following sentence grammatically correct?
  • It is grammatically correct, but the word usage is wrong since "duration" refers to time.
  • Heralding Heretic Word gets angry when I write this, yet it sounds correct to me.
  • This is OK in many everyday situations.
  • The personification "Word gets angry" would not be appropriate in formal or technical contexts.
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Heralding HereticIs the following sentence grammatically correct?
It is grammatically correct, but the word usage is wrong since "duration" refers to time.
Heralding HereticWord gets angry when I write this, yet it sounds correct to me.
This is OK in many everyday situations. The personification "Word gets angry"
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Thank you. I will replace it with length.

The word gets angry part was a little joke Emotion: wink
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Heralding HereticThe word gets angry part was a little joke
Sorry, I somehow misread your post and answered as if the "Word" sentence was another sentence that you were asking about.
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