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Park sang joon Posted 11 years ago
Grammar
(being) short of
1. Short of a computer, we can't solve this problem.
2. Being short of a computer, we can't solve this problem.
I'd like to know whether I can rephrase #1 to #2 without the change of the meaning.
Thank you in advance for your help.
2. Being short of a computer, we can't solve this problem.
I'd like to know whether I can rephrase #1 to #2 without the change of the meaning.
Thank you in advance for your help.
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Grammatically, yes, but neither is a reasonable solution. We can't solve this problem without (another) computer.
- Grammatically, yes, but neither is a reasonable solution.
- We can't solve this problem without (another) computer.
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Grammatically, yes, but neither is a reasonable solution.
We can't solve this problem without (another) computer.
We can't solve this problem without (another) computer.
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