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Wholegrain Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

Difficult question

Ok, can I say instead of

"I often hear the argument of dissuasion in debates of this sort."

"I often hear the argument of dissuasion in debates." if from the precedent sentence(s) we can infer of what sort of debates we are referring to?

I really appreciate your help.
  

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wholegrain the argument of dissuasion That doesn't make any sense to me whatsoever.

  • wholegrain the argument of dissuasion That doesn't make any sense to me whatsoever.
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wholegrainthe argument of dissuasion
That doesn't make any sense to me whatsoever.
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wholegrainthe argument of dissuasion
It is not easy to assign meaning to this group of words.
But to answer your question:
No. You can't just drop "of this sort". Without it, you're just making a statement about debates in general -- not necessarily even the ones referred to in other sentences which precede this one.
CJ
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I thought the same, but I found these:

Names Mentioned in Debates by Major Presidential Candidates


But the fact is, included with all that, he is also a fantastic guitar player who deserves to have his name mentioned in debates right along the sides of Carlos Santana and Pete Tow

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