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Perfect Stranger Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Grammar question no. 56 (very tricky!)
Dear All,
Here are two sentences that seem to be very very similar. Would you please be so kind and tell me:
a) If the meaning is 100% the same?
b) Is the emphasis placed on different parts of these sentences?
c) Which one would you use? Do you have a preference for one or the other?
d) Do both of them imply the same thing?
1) To think that developing countries can work hard to protect the environment is too simplistic.
2) It is too simplistic to think that developing countries can work hard to protect the environment.
Thanks
PS. On a different note, in my humble opinion, it'd be much better to use to assume rather than to think and can handle the problem of protecting the environment rather than can work together.
Here are two sentences that seem to be very very similar. Would you please be so kind and tell me:
a) If the meaning is 100% the same?
b) Is the emphasis placed on different parts of these sentences?
c) Which one would you use? Do you have a preference for one or the other?
d) Do both of them imply the same thing?
1) To think that developing countries can work hard to protect the environment is too simplistic.
2) It is too simplistic to think that developing countries can work hard to protect the environment.
Thanks
PS. On a different note, in my humble opinion, it'd be much better to use to assume rather than to think and can handle the problem of protecting the environment rather than can work together.
Top answer
Perfect Stranger a) If the meaning is 100% the same? Yes. Perfect Stranger b) Is the emphasis placed on different parts of these sentences?
- Perfect Stranger a) If the meaning is 100% the same?
- Yes.
- Perfect Stranger b) Is the emphasis placed on different parts of these sentences?
- Not really (beyond the fact that sentence emphasis generally drifts toward the end); just two different styles.
- Perfect Stranger c) Which one would you use?
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Perfect Strangera) If the meaning is 100% the same?Yes.
Perfect Strangerb) Is the emphasis placed on different parts of these sentences?Not really (beyond the fact that sentence emphasis generally drifts toward the end); just two different styles.
Perfect Strangerc) Which one would you use? Do you h
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