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Nona the brit Posted 19 years ago
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Help urgent - me or myself?

0I've been working on this document so long that I've gone cross-eyed and can't see this straight any more!02br
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00I used advice from my accountant and my business mentor to help myself resolve any uncertainties. 02br
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00I used advice from my accountant and my business mentor to help me resolve any uncertainties. 02br
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00It needs to be clear that the accountant and mentor did not resolve the uncertainties, but that I went to them for expert advice, and used that to solve the uncertainties myself. 02br
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00REALLY URGENT!02br
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00Oh, if anyone has any better ideas for wording they are welcome, but the word count has to stay about the same (maybe one or two more).02br
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12br 12br 10I used advice from my accountant and my business mentor to help myself resolve any uncertainties. 12br 12br 10or12br 12br 12br 10I used advice from my accountant and my business mentor to help me resolve any uncertainties. 12br 12br 12br 12br 10It needs to be clear that the accountant and mentor did not resolve the uncertainties, but that I went to them for expert advice, and used that to solve the uncertainties myself.

— Philip

  • 12br 12br 10I used advice from my accountant and my business mentor to help myself resolve any uncertainties.
  • 12br 12br 10or12br 12br 12br 10I used advice from my accountant and my business mentor to help me resolve any uncertainties.
  • 12br 12br 12br 12br 10It needs to be clear that the accountant and mentor did not resolve the uncertainties, but that I went to them for expert advice, and used that to solve the uncertainties myself.
  • 12br 12br 10Ta12br 12blockquote 10 01font 01b 00Hi, Nona!
  • I think you can get by without either pronoun.
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01cite10Nona The Brit12cite10I've been working on this document so long that I've gone cross-eyed and can't see this straight any more!12br
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0 Thanks, I ended up solving the problem by re-phrasing it completely. Job applications - ugh this was a total stinker of a form. 6 mini-essays to write! I've just emailed everything over and I need to go and have a nice quiet lie-down now... 0-
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01cite10Nona The Brit12cite10I used advice from my accountant and my business mentor to 11font10help myself resolve any 11u10uncertainties12u10.12font10 12br
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0Well, I suppose there could be more than one.02br
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00Part of the question was 'how did you resolve any uncertainties' so I copied their format. 0-
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0 Umm, CalifJim was right then...02br
00It seems in many cases nobody cares if you use a plural or singular noun after "any". Provided you don't say "Do you have any sister"... I would have used "uncertainty", singular, I guess it would have been good as well. 050010id1
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0I know what you mean, Kooyeen! In this case there is, to me at least, a very subtle shade of difference between uncertainty and uncertainties. I'm going to try and explain it, but it's a bit of a slippery fish in my mind, so bear with me!02br
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00"any uncertainty" feels like it refers to a vague feeling of doubt, of something not being quite right, something nebulous.
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