Grammar check please?
Hi,
Tell me if I am correct in these grammar, please?
This bicycle is too old, I am going to obsolete it soon. (It acts a verb)
It is obsolete computer now. (Act as an adj)
It became obsolete. (Act as an adj)
Cheers.
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John Aki This bicycle is too old, I am going to obsolete it soon. This sounds wrong to me. I've never heard the word used as a verb before, but I guess it can be used in the sense of replacing something old with something new which then makes the older form no longer worth using.
- John Aki This bicycle is too old, I am going to obsolete it soon.
- This sounds wrong to me.
- I've never heard the word used as a verb before, but I guess it can be used in the sense of replacing something old with something new which then makes the older form no longer worth using.
- Just to use it as a synonym for 'replace' doesn't sound natural at all.
- John Aki It is an obsolete computer now.
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John AkiThis bicycle is too old, I am going to obsolete it soon.
This sounds wrong to me. I've never heard the word used as a verb before, but I guess it can be used in the sense of replacing something old with something new which then makes the older form no longer worth using. Just to use it as a synonym for 'replace' doesn't sound natural at all.
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