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Lucas21c Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Could you help me?

Could you check whether the following sentence sounds fine?
Thank you.

The real tagedy of the public is that tomorrow like today keep coming, that they never can change.
  

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lucas21c The real tagedy of the public is that tomorrow like today keep coming, that they never can change. Question: Who is "they"? Tomorrows ?

  • lucas21c The real tagedy of the public is that tomorrow like today keep coming, that they never can change.
  • Question: Who is "they"?
  • Tomorrows ?
  • or something assumed in the context ?
  • It doesn't have a concrete context.
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lucas21cThe real tagedy of the public is that tomorrow like today keep coming, that they never can change.
Question: Who is "they"? Tomorrows ? or something assumed in the context ? It doesn't have a concrete context. So I am going to take a wild guess. Assuming this is a scenario in which politicians are going about their
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If I changed the original sentence like the following one, would it still sound unclear?

The real tagedy of the public is that tomorrow like today keep coming, which people never can change.
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The real tragedy of life is that every day is like the next; people are incapable of change.

CJ

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