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Navitasan Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
Have the patience to
Are these sentences correct:
1- How many times do you have the patience to repeat this simple operation?
2-How many times do you have enough patience to repeat this simple operation?
1- How many times do you have the patience to repeat this simple operation?
2-How many times do you have enough patience to repeat this simple operation?
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#1 is OK I suppose. #2 does not seem quite right. Being picky, this sentence structure seems slightly flawed to me.
- #1 is OK I suppose.
- #2 does not seem quite right.
- Being picky, this sentence structure seems slightly flawed to me.
- "How many times" obviously applies to "repeat", but grammatically it appears to apply to "have the patience (to repeat)".
- This is not quite right because "patience" is an enduring quality, not something that you evoke separately each time you perform the operation.
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#1 is OK I suppose. #2 does not seem quite right.
Being picky, this sentence structure seems slightly flawed to me. "How many times" obviously applies to "repeat", but grammatically it appears to apply to "have the patience (to repeat)". This is not quite right because "patience" is an enduring quality, not something that you evoke separately each time you perform the operation.
Being picky, this sentence structure seems slightly flawed to me. "How many times" obviously applies to "repeat", but grammatically it appears to apply to "have the patience (to repeat)". This is not quite right because "patience" is an enduring quality, not something that you evoke separately each time you perform the operation.
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