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Anonymous Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

Correct sentence?

CalifJim
anonymousThis dish in this picture looks delicious. It would be salty and spicy.

Now I'm not sure if you're addressing AS or CJ.

Personally, I would not say it without "probably".

The other thing I find odd is that it is choppier than it needs to be. It needs something to tell us why you are pairing these two sentences. How you connect the two depends on your taste. Is spicy and salty good or bad?

It looks delicious, but it would probably be too spicy.
It looks very spicy, so it's probably delicious.

CJ

The dish in the newspaper looks delicious. It would be salty and spicy.

Are you saying these sentences are incorrect without "probably"?

  

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anonymous The dish in the newspaper looks delicious. It would be salty and spicy. Are you saying these sentences are incorrect without "probably"?

  • anonymous The dish in the newspaper looks delicious.
  • It would be salty and spicy.
  • Are you saying these sentences are incorrect without "probably"?
  • I suppose that, in effect, I am saying that.
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anonymousThe dish in the newspaper looks delicious. It would be salty and spicy. Are you saying these sentences are incorrect without "probably"?

I suppose that, in effect, I am saying that. They are fine grammatically, so in that sense we can't say "incorrect", but they are not very idiomatic (i.e. "natural") as written, and the addition of "probably" mak

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