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Alc24 Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

How would you phrase this sentence please?

Could you tell me how you'd phrase this sentence please?

The lines seems shorter and shorter the more diagonally you look at it from.

The shorter the line seems, the more diagonally you look at it from.

Thank you
  

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The lines seem shorter and shorter the more nearly parallel you look at them from. The shorter the line seems the more nearly parallel you look at it from.

  • The lines seem shorter and shorter the more nearly parallel you look at them from.
  • The shorter the line seems the more nearly parallel you look at it from.
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The lines seem shorter and shorter the more nearly parallel you look at them from.

The shorter the line seems the more nearly parallel you look at it from.
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It seems to me that the first sentence isn't correct because "the more X happens, the more Y..." and its not X happens more and more, the more Y....."??

Is that correct?

What does "nearly parallel mean please? Why doesn't diagonally work?

THank you

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