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Anonymous Posted 21 years ago
Vocabulary

bring out the maximum in somebody

Hello!

Can you pelase, as native speakers, tell me if the following expressions are OK:

1) It brings the maximum in X

2) friendship is the main force that drives this company forward

3) new bounds between people are created

4) it was a challange for all the involved/involved/who were involved

5)these problems are reality of the life on an island

Thank you
  

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Since you have posted several times on this topic, it would be good if you registered, Anon, so that we can understand which Anon we are speaking with. Again, we do not have enough context to decide on the appropriateness of what you are saying. I can, however, try to fix some of the more basic problems: 1) It brings out the best in X -- this is the idiom; you can also use, for instance, greatest effort, maximum efficiency -- depending on what you are talking about (which we cannot judge without more context).

  • Since you have posted several times on this topic, it would be good if you registered, Anon, so that we can understand which Anon we are speaking with.
  • Again, we do not have enough context to decide on the appropriateness of what you are saying.
  • I can, however, try to fix some of the more basic problems: 1) It brings out the best in X -- this is the idiom; you can also use, for instance, greatest effort, maximum efficiency -- depending on what you are talking about (which we cannot judge without more context).
  • 2) friendship is the main force that drives this company forward -- I find friendship a little odd here, but maybe it is so; generally I would opt for something like harmony ( wa in Japanese) or the more business-like mutual support .
  • 3) new bonds between people are created 4) it was a challenge for all involved 5) these problems are a reality of life on an island
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Since you have posted several times on this topic, it would be good if you registered, Anon, so that we can understand which Anon we are speaking with.

Again, we do not have enough context to decide on the appropriateness of what you are saying. I can, however, try to fix some of the more basic problems:


1) It brings out the best in X -- this is the idiom; yo
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Ok, thank you.

I had some problems during registration and that's the reason I hadn't done it so far.

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