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Dsaboji Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

How to better frame this sentence:

How to better frame this sentence:
The kind of food we eat attracts the same kind of people in our lives.

This is an example. Looking a suitable template for these kind of sentences.
One such usage is "As is the ..... So will be the ...."
But I am looking for a crisper more accurate template.
  

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Hello, dsaboji—and welcome to English Forums. dsaboji The kind of food we eat attracts the same kind of people in our lives I don't know what you are trying to say with that sentence. 'The same kind' in what way" Please explain more.

  • Hello, dsaboji—and welcome to English Forums.
  • dsaboji The kind of food we eat attracts the same kind of people in our lives I don't know what you are trying to say with that sentence.
  • 'The same kind' in what way" Please explain more.
  • dsaboji "As is the .....
  • " But I am looking for a crisper more accurate template Could you give us an example sentence?
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Hello, dsaboji—and welcome to English Forums.
dsabojiThe kind of food we eat attracts the same kind of people in our lives
I don't know what you are trying to say with that sentence. 'The same kind' in what way" Please explain more.
dsaboji "As is the ..... So will be the ...." But I am looking for a crisper more accurate template
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dsabojiThe kind of food we eat attracts the same kind of people in our lives.
Is this what you mean?
People who eat the same kinds of food are attracted to each other.
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Thanks to all for your answers / questions. I am beginning to get some insights. But here is another example to better explain what I am looking for.

"Whatever you focus on, the details of that thing begin to reveal before you."

So here, the same "thing" is being described with two different constructs. In the first is it 'Whatever', in the second it is 'that thing'. I am doing
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Whatever you focus on, the details of that thing begin to reveal themselves before you.
dsaboji I am doing a translation of a 'Hindi' language sentence
Is that the sentence? If not, please post your draft translation of the actual sentence concerned.
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This is more succinct: (I'm not sure what you mean be "crisper.")

"Whatever you focus on, its details will begin to emerge before you."

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