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Rommel Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

Does it sound grammatical?

Is the statement It's life not our own (meaning, This life is not ours) grammatically correct? Somebody wrote it in his poem.
  

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Rommel It's life not our own This is not grammatically correct. Life is not our own / Life doesn't belong to us. The poem uses incorrect English.

— Philip

  • Rommel It's life not our own This is not grammatically correct.
  • Life is not our own / Life doesn't belong to us.
  • The poem uses incorrect English.
  • Is it written by a native speaker?
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RommelIt's life not our own
This is not grammatically correct. Life is not our own / Life doesn't belong to us. The poem uses incorrect English. Is it written by a native speaker?
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PhilipIs it written by a native speaker?
No, sir. In what other ways should it be written then? Could it also be written as This is not our own life? Please let me know.
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I think that the basic idea here is one of metaphysics and can be expressed in a number of ways.
Rommel PhilipIs it written by a native speaker?No, sir. In what other ways should it be written then? Could it also be written as This is not our own life? Please let me know.
This is a correct sentence, but it falls sh
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