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Maj Posted 22 years ago
Grammar

Demanding/generous

Do you think they are opposites? If so could you use them in a sentence to clarify this idea?
  

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I do not think that they are opposites. There is nothing preventing a demanding person from being generous.

  • I do not think that they are opposites.
  • There is nothing preventing a demanding person from being generous.
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I do not think that they are opposites. There is nothing preventing a demanding person from being generous.
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Thanks. I really like your sentence. It shows an interesting nuance. I can't help feeling so mean for being so demanding.
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you have written:

"there is nothing preventing a demanding person..........."

is it correct to say "there is nothing preventing"?

or is it better to write " there is nothing that/ which can prevent.....

could you plz show some other example sentences with the same structure if the 1st one is correct?

"there is nothing "[particularly with those ve
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One could also say:

There is nothing to prevent a demanding person from also being generous.
There is nothing that would prevent a demanding person from also being generous.
There is nothing that prevents a demanding person from also being generous.

Here's another example of the original structure:

There's no stopping him from getting what he wants.

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