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Mr. Tom Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

If we don't get a bus today, we'll chance

Hi

Is this sentence natural?

If we don't get a bus today, we'll chance going there on our feet.

Thanks,

Tom
  

Top answer

Not really. It isn't bad, but this is how I would say it. If we don't catch the bus today, we will have to walk there.

— Cynthia3754

  • Not really.
  • It isn't bad, but this is how I would say it.
  • If we don't catch the bus today, we will have to walk there.
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Not really. It isn't bad, but this is how I would say it.

If we don't catch the bus today, we will have to walk there.
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Thanks, Cynthia -- but:

going there on foot isn't really important -- the boys just want to chance their luck.

Even then the use of "chance walking on our feet" is unnatural?

Tom
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Yes, because even though I am sure someone out there in the world gets around walking on their hands, most of us have to walk on our feet, so it is just redundant to say we will have to walk on our feet. We just use walking, not walking on our feet.
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