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Moon7296 Posted 15 years ago
Essay & Composition Writing

If you looked at him, ~/ To look at him, ~

1. If you looked at him, you could hardly help laughing.

2. To look at him, you could hardly help laughing.

Is 1 and 2 the same?

Does 2 sound OK? not weird?
  

Top answer

moon7296 1. If you looked at him, you could hardly help laughing. 2.

— KrisBlueNZ

  • moon7296 1.
  • If you looked at him, you could hardly help laughing.
  • 2.
  • To look at him, you could hardly help laughing.
  • Sentence 1 is okay.
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moon72961. If you looked at him, you could hardly help laughing.
2. To look at him, you could hardly help laughing.
Sentence 1 is okay.
Sentence 2 is wrong. A better example of "to look at him" would be "You wouldn't think he was a millionaire, to look at him". It's a weird turn of phrase. I'm so glad I grew up with this crazy language and didn't have
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Thank you Kris^^

You said:

'I'm so glad I grew up with this crazy language and didn't have to learn it later!'

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But as you see, I have asked almost 250 questions so far here. I always have a lot of questions.

Sometimes, I ask questions because there may be some errors in
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