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NL888 Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Does this sound natural? Improve it if not (enough)

All sufferings past, now and to come during the travel are not meant for regretting taking the travel but for not regretting in the end that the travel were not taken.
  

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NL888 All sufferings past, now and to come during the travel are not meant for regretting taking the travel but for not regretting in the end that the travel were not taken. Not only is it not natural, it is also ungrammatical.

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  • NL888 All sufferings past, now and to come during the travel are not meant for regretting taking the travel but for not regretting in the end that the travel were not taken.
  • Not only is it not natural, it is also ungrammatical.
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NL888All sufferings past, now and to come during the travel are not meant for regretting taking the travel but for not regretting in the end that the travel were not taken.
Not only is it not natural, it is also ungrammatical.
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I suggest something like this as a more likely native composition:

All sufferings past, present, and to come during the journey should not cause regret for the path taken but satisfaction that the path was not abandoned.
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I agree that the sentence is awkward, but is grammatical in my eyes.

Would you like to point out where and why it is ungrammatical?
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NL888All sufferings past, now and to come during the travel are not meant for regretting taking the travel but for not regretting in the end that the travel were not taken.
From the grammatical perspective, one may have experienced sufferings in the past,
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All sufferings past, now and to come during the travel are not meant for regretting ...
grammarfreakTravel - is singular, "are" is not correct" unless you meant travels.
The subject of the verb is not 'travel' but 'sufferings' (plural).
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grammarfreakFrom the grammatical perspective, one may have experienced sufferings in the past, and present, but would he necessarily continure to suffer in the future? No one would look forward to more sufferings. "To come " suggests exactly this .
It does not suggest that the writer is looking forward to them, but s/he may well expect them.
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fivejedjonIt does not suggest that the writer is looking forward to them, but s/he may well expect them.
No I didn't mean that. To come- certainly suggested a hint of expectation. I said no one will look forward to future suffering as a figure of speech. I realized I made an error with "travel" after hit "enter". I stand "corrected". Think of it, I stumbled te
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