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Maybetoday Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Does this sound natural?

I want to check the information and you must help me without ifs or buts. ?
  

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without any ifs, ands or buts.

  • without any ifs, ands or buts.
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without any ifs, ands or buts.
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I'm just trying to make a sentences using some word pairs like ifs or buts....that's why I'm asking.
Does it sound better : Help me finding the information, I don't want to hear (any) ifs or buts ?
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maybetodayHelp me finding the information, and I don't want to hear (any) ifs or buts ?
The expression that I hear is always ifs, ands, or buts, so it's a little unnatural to omit one element and use it as a word pair.

Very demanding: You're going to help me find the information, and I don'
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I found ifs,ands, or buts in American English dictionaries, and in Cabridge online dictionary it's only ifs or buts but maybe is not very common without ands? In my student's book it's only ifs or buts - it is New Headway of Oxford
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maybetodayin the Cambridge online dictionary it's only ifs or buts
Oh. OK. I thought the British version was the same as the American version.

Use the British version if that's the variety of English that you are studying.

CJ
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You know that in idioms and some phrasal verb there are differenses between American and British and I'm trying to use British. Thank you!

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