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Mewosh Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
Commit oneself to an essay?
I basically have two questions to pose.
Consider:
"I took a first step into university mathematics by committing myself to my extended essay on error-correcting codes."
Firstly, "a first step", "my first step" or "the first step"?
Secondly, trying to say that I accepted the challenge of writing the essay, is the aforesaid sentence correct? Or should it rather be "committing myself to writing my essay"? Or none of them?
Consider:
"I took a first step into university mathematics by committing myself to my extended essay on error-correcting codes."
Firstly, "a first step", "my first step" or "the first step"?
Secondly, trying to say that I accepted the challenge of writing the essay, is the aforesaid sentence correct? Or should it rather be "committing myself to writing my essay"? Or none of them?
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Hi, I basically have two questions to pose. " Firstly, "a first step", "my first step" or "the first step"? All OK.
- Hi, I basically have two questions to pose.
- " Firstly, "a first step", "my first step" or "the first step"?
- All OK.
- I prefer 'my .
- ' Secondly, trying to say that I accepted the challenge of writing the essay, Yes, I prefer the 'challenge' version.
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Hi,
I basically have two questions to pose.
Consider:
"I took a first step into university mathematics by committing myself to my extended essay on error-correcting codes."
Firstly, "a first step", "my first step" or "the first step"? All OK. I prefer 'my . . .'
Secondly, trying to say that I accepted the challenge of writing the essay, Yes, I prefer
I basically have two questions to pose.
Consider:
"I took a first step into university mathematics by committing myself to my extended essay on error-correcting codes."
Firstly, "a first step", "my first step" or "the first step"? All OK. I prefer 'my . . .'
Secondly, trying to say that I accepted the challenge of writing the essay, Yes, I prefer
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Thanks for your reply, Clive.
Since it was entirely my own choice to write that essay and nobody proposed the topic to me, it sounds wrong to me to say that I "accepted the challenge" since I chose to write it myself. Is "committing myself to write my essay" that bad?
Since it was entirely my own choice to write that essay and nobody proposed the topic to me, it sounds wrong to me to say that I "accepted the challenge" since I chose to write it myself. Is "committing myself to write my essay" that bad?
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Hi,
No. I just said I prefer the other version.
If it was your choice, you might also consider 'I challenged myself to . . . '
I'm sure whichever you choose will be fine.
Clive
No. I just said I prefer the other version.
If it was your choice, you might also consider 'I challenged myself to . . . '
I'm sure whichever you choose will be fine.
Clive
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