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FatimaSaboor123 Posted 6 years ago
Grammar

Drive to compete or Competitive drive?

"This competition is organized to invoke the drive to compete in children."

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"This competition is organized to invoke competitive drive in children."

The first seems grammatically correct and well-constructed to me. Is the second one correct?

  

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" The first seems grammatically correct and well-constructed to me. Is the second one correct? Neither of these is wrong, In #1, the word 'the' tells us that you think all children have this competitive drive already.

  • " The first seems grammatically correct and well-constructed to me.
  • Is the second one correct?
  • Neither of these is wrong, In #1, the word 'the' tells us that you think all children have this competitive drive already.
  • This is not so in #2, More natural is eg The purpse of this competition is to teach children to be more competitive
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"This competition is organized to invoke the drive to compete in children."

Or

"This competition is organized to invoke competitive drive in children."

The first seems grammatically correct and well-constructed to me. Is the second one correct?

Neither of these is wrong,

In #1, the word 'the' tells us that you think all children have this competi

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