Come across
It is great that, through language games, learners can come across some cultural and linguistic knowledge they otherwise never would.
Is it okay to end the sentence like this? Saying "they otherwise never would come across" sounds weird since we already have "come across" in another part of the sentence.
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Necrophagist Is it okay to end the sentence like this? Yes. In my view it is slightly questionable whether you can "come across" knowledge in the sense you intend.
- Necrophagist Is it okay to end the sentence like this?
- Yes.
- In my view it is slightly questionable whether you can "come across" knowledge in the sense you intend.
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- information, which then becomes "knowledge" once you have absorbed it.
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NecrophagistIs it okay to end the sentence like this?
Yes.
In my view it is slightly questionable whether you can "come across" knowledge in the sense you intend. Normally you "come across" e.g. information, which then becomes "knowledge" once you have absorbed it. "come across knowledge" somewhat sounds to me as if you are discovering someone else's
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