Don't blame God for..
Is there any difference in meaning between these two sentences? Please explain.
1) Don't blame God for having created the tiger, but thank him for not giving it wings.
2) Don't blame God for creating the tiger, but thank him for not giving it wings.
Top answer
The second is natural. The first is possible, but it is unnecessarily prim and has the defect that the second clause changes tense. "
- The second is natural.
- The first is possible, but it is unnecessarily prim and has the defect that the second clause changes tense.
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The second is natural. The first is possible, but it is unnecessarily prim and has the defect that the second clause changes tense. To be self-consistent it would have to be "Don't blame *** for having created the tiger, but thank him for not having given it wings."
0Hasibrahman Don't blame *** for creating the tiger, but thank him for not giving it wings.
That is the better of the two, grammatically.
But *** did create fierce flying predators, the pterosaurs, a range of meat-eaters as threatening a killer as any tiger! Their bones have been found and reassembled. And tigers in the wild are rapidly going extinct.
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