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Navitasan Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Have three men to do the job
1-We have three men to do the job.
2-We have three men in order to do the job.
In which case:
a-The three men are going to do the job
in which:
b-The three men are going to help us to do the job
and in which:
c-we cannot tell.
Gratefully,
Navi.
2-We have three men in order to do the job.
In which case:
a-The three men are going to do the job
in which:
b-The three men are going to help us to do the job
and in which:
c-we cannot tell.
Gratefully,
Navi.
Top answer
Only context will tell. Why do you persist in building ambiguous sentences? The point of using a language is to be as clear as possible, not as vague as possible.
- Only context will tell.
- Why do you persist in building ambiguous sentences?
- The point of using a language is to be as clear as possible, not as vague as possible.
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Only context will tell. Why do you persist in building ambiguous sentences? The point of using a language is to be as clear as possible, not as vague as possible.
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navitasanWe have three men in order to do the job.This one doesn't sound very natural to me.
CJ
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Thank you both very much,
I do not use ambiguous sentences and I am not particularly fond of them. I almost have an obsessive fear of them! That is why I worry about them!
Gratefully,
Navi,
I do not use ambiguous sentences and I am not particularly fond of them. I almost have an obsessive fear of them! That is why I worry about them!
Gratefully,
Navi,
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navitasanI do not use ambiguous sentences and I am not particularly fond of them.Then why do you post them over and over again?
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There are times that I forget what I have posted. Sorry about that.
I might double-check certain things as well. Sometimes I get contradictory replies. I think ambiguity is a bit tricky in the English language. I get the feeling that there is a lot of it in English. I have heard that there are languages which have more ambiguous structures than English. But compared to mine, English has a
I might double-check certain things as well. Sometimes I get contradictory replies. I think ambiguity is a bit tricky in the English language. I get the feeling that there is a lot of it in English. I have heard that there are languages which have more ambiguous structures than English. But compared to mine, English has a
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navitasanat times people do not see the ambiguity.Especially native speakers!
CJ
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