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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

English native speaker, your thoughts

Would this sequence of words ever be used?

makes it such that

If so would you give me a couple of examples please?

Thanks
  

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I could not think of a natural example. There were no citations in the singular form in COCA, but two in the plural. Here is one: What we think that this policy is likely to do is to blossom and to mushroom and to make it such that nonimmigrants from many, many countries are going to have to register when they come here.

  • I could not think of a natural example.
  • There were no citations in the singular form in COCA, but two in the plural.
  • Here is one: What we think that this policy is likely to do is to blossom and to mushroom and to make it such that nonimmigrants from many, many countries are going to have to register when they come here.
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I could not think of a natural example. There were no citations in the singular form in COCA, but two in the plural. Here is one: What we think that this policy is likely to do is to blossom and to mushroom and to make it such that nonimmigrants from many, many countries are going to have to register when they come here.

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