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Alc24 Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
Compared/in inverse relation/ recognize vs detect
Could you help me with these please, tell me which you would say please?
- He's cheap compared to what he makes./His cheapness is in inverse relation to the money he makes.
- He's shy with everyone but me./He's shy about going into the fridge at other people's house even when he's bought the food.
- The dog will recognize/detect the humans scent. That's how they recognize people they haven't seen in a while./Dogs recognize people from/by their scent.
- I hurt myself in/on the same spot.
Thank you
- He's cheap compared to what he makes./His cheapness is in inverse relation to the money he makes.
- He's shy with everyone but me./He's shy about going into the fridge at other people's house even when he's bought the food.
- The dog will recognize/detect the humans scent. That's how they recognize people they haven't seen in a while./Dogs recognize people from/by their scent.
- I hurt myself in/on the same spot.
Thank you
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/ His cheapness is in inverse relation to the money he makes. Ooph! Not the second one.
- / His cheapness is in inverse relation to the money he makes.
- Ooph!
- Not the second one.
- I'd never say that.
- (The math is wrong anyway because (I think) you want to say that his stinginess increases as his money increases .
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- He's cheap [compared to / considering] what he makes./His cheapness is in inverse relation to the money he makes. Ooph! Not the second one. I'd never say that. (The math is wrong anyway because (I think) you want to say that his stinginess increases as his money increases. Both paramet
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Hello Califjim,
here is were I see inverse proportion relation to
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/inverse.
here is were I see inverse proportion relation to
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/inverse.
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