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Vsuresh Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

adjective for power

Hi
Please tell me which sounds better.
She needs a great deal/a great amount of power to do this work.
  

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She needs a lot of energy to do this work. CB

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She needs a lot of energy to do this work.

CB
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Thank you, CB. Please which is better in case we refer to a machine.
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Hi,
"She needs a great amount of energy to do this work" would be correct.

And if you are talking in context of machines, then "she" would be replaced by "it" and instead of saying "energy", you would say "power", so your sentence becomes:

"It needs a great amount of power to do this work".
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She needs a great deal of strength.
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vsureshPlease which is better in case we refer to a machine.
Machines need a great deal/a great amount of power(=electrical energy) to do this work.

Both are proper in this context. You can see in the below link that both are quite synonymous:
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Thank you, Prajwal

Suresh
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