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Wholegrain Posted 18 years ago
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Are these sentences correct?

It's clearer what you are trying to do with this sentence.

It's better what you are doing now.
  

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These are both sentences that native speakers (including me) might use, but to me they are not particularly elegant (especially the second). In the second case I would prefer "What you are doing now is better". The first sentence is slightly ambiguous, and without seeing the surrounding context I'm not sure if or how I might rephrase it.

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  • These are both sentences that native speakers (including me) might use, but to me they are not particularly elegant (especially the second).
  • In the second case I would prefer "What you are doing now is better".
  • The first sentence is slightly ambiguous, and without seeing the surrounding context I'm not sure if or how I might rephrase it.
  • One possibility is "Your intended meaning is clearer in this sentence".
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These are both sentences that native speakers (including me) might use, but to me they are not particularly elegant (especially the second).

In the second case I would prefer "What you are doing now is better".

The first sentence is slightly ambiguous, and without seeing the surrounding context I'm not sure if or how I might rephrase it. One possibility is "Your intended meaning
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I would rephrase it this way "It's more clear now what you are trying...."
I prefer "more clear" than "clearer" and adding "now" as a separator to the rest of the sentence.

# 2 is a bit iffy!
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