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Taka Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Hard

·She has made (great) efforts to collect those items.
·She has collected those items hard.

Does the second one sound natural and make the same sense as the first one?
  

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No. The second sentence is not acceptable. You can try hard, but you can't collect hard.

— Englishmaven

  • No.
  • The second sentence is not acceptable.
  • You can try hard, but you can't collect hard.
  • He tried hard to learn the poem, but he couldn't do it.
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No. The second sentence is not acceptable. You can try hard, but you can't collect hard.

He tried hard to learn the poem, but he couldn't do it.
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I thought not. Good.

Thanks, Englishmaven!
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