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NL888 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Do two sentences sound native?
Do two sentences sound native?
The second sentence seems to have used an old-fashioned grammatical structure "a flunky not only devoid but also rejective of sense" (Does it mean "a flunky who is not only devoid but also rejective of sense"?)
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1) The international bodies and countries that might have been expected to squeeze Mr Kibaki into seeing sense have been incoherent.
2) My fault to have tried to squeeze sense into a flunky not only devoid but also rejective of sense.
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The second sentence seems to have used an old-fashioned grammatical structure "a flunky not only devoid but also rejective of sense" (Does it mean "a flunky who is not only devoid but also rejective of sense"?)
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1) The international bodies and countries that might have been expected to squeeze Mr Kibaki into seeing sense have been incoherent.
2) My fault to have tried to squeeze sense into a flunky not only devoid but also rejective of sense.
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Top answer
These both seem OK to me. ) Right. This is not an old-fashioned structure though.
- These both seem OK to me.
- ) Right.
- This is not an old-fashioned structure though.
- The phrase "rejective of" is fairly unusual, but it works for me.
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These both seem OK to me. (I would probably write "countries and international bodies" just to avoid any possibility of reading it as meaning "international countries", which sounds odd.)
NL888The second sentence seems to have used an old-fashioned grammatical structure "a flunky not only devoid but also rejective of sense" (Does it mean "a flunky who is not only devoid but
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