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John Aki Posted 5 years ago
Grammar

Grammar advice please?

Hi,

Do you agree that these two share pretty much same meaning here?


I believe that this is a best camera, it has more details retained / preserved.

It does retain / preserve more details.

It is retained / preserved more details.


Cheers

  

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It seems slightly weird to talk of a camera "retaining/preserving more details". It is not something that we would usually say. g.

  • It seems slightly weird to talk of a camera "retaining/preserving more details".
  • It is not something that we would usually say.
  • g.
  • that the pictures are higher resolution / better quality / sharper, or something like this.
  • Setting that aside, grammatically "it has more details retained/preserved" and "does retain/preserve more details" are possible.
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It seems slightly weird to talk of a camera "retaining/preserving more details". It is not something that we would usually say. We would say e.g. that the pictures are higher resolution / better quality / sharper, or something like this.

Setting that aside, grammatically "it has more details retained/preserved" and "does retain/preserve more details" are possible. "retain" and "preserv

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