Grammar Q: "Make a plan and every effort..."
Hi everyone,
I have a grammar question! The original/correct sentence is "Make a plan and make every effort..."
A student wrote "Make a plan and every effort." Is this grammatically incorrect? If so, why?
Thank you!
Top answer
g. s omething like "make a hat and a pair of gloves" is fine. However, in your example the "make" from "make a plan" does not transfer very comfortably to "every effort".
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- s omething like "make a hat and a pair of gloves" is fine.
- However, in your example the "make" from "make a plan" does not transfer very comfortably to "every effort".
- Unlike the hat and gloves example, the two uses of "make" do not seem completely parallel.
- "make every effort" seems verging on an idiomatic set form of words, and messing with it produces a rather awkward result.
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The omission of the second "make" is in principle grammatically allowed; e.g. something like "make a hat and a pair of gloves" is fine. However, in your example the "make" from "make a plan" does not transfer very comfortably to "every effort". Unlike the hat and gloves example, the two uses of "make" do not seem
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