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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

does this sentence make sense?? need help

does "hide attemps" expression makes sense, it exists in english?
or no, it is "attemps to hide"..
we can´t use "hide attemps" ?
if anyone ca help me , im portuguese, so there smany doubst i have in some expressions , many time i ain´t sure if they exist at all.
thank you.
  

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Well you haven't given me a sentence to work with, but here are two possibilities: She never hides her attempts to go home early . ( hide is a verb, attempt is a noun) She never attempts to hide her desire to go home early . ( attempt and hide are verbs)

  • Well you haven't given me a sentence to work with, but here are two possibilities: She never hides her attempts to go home early .
  • ( hide is a verb, attempt is a noun) She never attempts to hide her desire to go home early .
  • ( attempt and hide are verbs)
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Well you haven't given me a sentence to work with, but here are two possibilities:

She never hides her attempts to go home early. (hide is a verb, attempt is a noun)
She never attempts to hide her desire to go home early. (attempt and hide are verbs)
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hi thanks.
sohere´s an example: " they do no hide attempts" . does this makes sense? ..or i will have to go with "they don´t attempt to hide" ?
i see you used "hides (her) attemps" in your first sentence , but in a way that what is being hided is the attempts , .. not what i "wanna use", i want to give the idea of an attempting to hide (soemthing ), but like "hide attempts" in the middl
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no? something like "they done hide attempts" makes sense?
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hello again..
or should i say " they do hidden attemps.."? any of this makes sense ? "hide attemps" or "hidden attemps"
another ex: "they need the truth no (hide/ or hidden) attempts of..? can any of this words be used here? thanks.
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they do no hide their attempts to ... OK

they done hide attempts not correct
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hide attemps -- No. She hides (v) attempts (n) to cheat. (cheat is Object)
they do no hide attempts -- No. They do not hide (v) attempts (n) to cheat.
they don´t attempt to hide -- Yes. = they don't try to hide. (hide is Object)
they done hide attempts -- No. They attempted to h
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thank you , now i understant it . Emotion: smile
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Marius Hancuthey do no hide their attempts to ... OK
I was wrong here: I skipped over no, which must be not.

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