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Nessie000 Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
'by its narrow definition'
Hi,
Please have a look at this:
By its narrow definition, 'success' means something we have when we accomplish our target, and by its broad definition, it means just the same, but that 'target' has to be big to some extent
=> Do you find the sentence above odd? I mean mainly the bold parts. Even if not, is there any other way to make it more... native-like?
Many thanks,
Nessie.
Please have a look at this:
By its narrow definition, 'success' means something we have when we accomplish our target, and by its broad definition, it means just the same, but that 'target' has to be big to some extent
=> Do you find the sentence above odd? I mean mainly the bold parts. Even if not, is there any other way to make it more... native-like?
Many thanks,
Nessie.
Top answer
The bold parts are not strange. Some words have both narrow and broad definitions. But I think that the last part of the sentence is not very logical.
- The bold parts are not strange.
- Some words have both narrow and broad definitions.
- But I think that the last part of the sentence is not very logical.
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The bold parts are not strange. Some words have both narrow and broad definitions. But I think that the last part of the sentence is not very logical.
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nessie000 Even if not, is there any other way to make it more... native-like?(I have no idea what this means.)
" . . 'success' is something we have . . . "
" . . . 'success' means that which we have . . . "
" . . . when we hit our target . . . "
" . . . when we accomplish our task . . "
" . . . when we reach our
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