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Stevenukd Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

INDIFFERENT

Dear Teachers,

1. Why have you been so indifferent to your girlfriend and treated her so bad these days?

- Is this natural to say?

Thanks very much to Teachers,

Stevenukd.
  

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Stevenukd Dear Teachers, 1. Why have you been so indifferent to your girlfriend and treated her so bad these days? - Is this natural to say?

— Hoa Thai

  • Stevenukd Dear Teachers, 1.
  • Why have you been so indifferent to your girlfriend and treated her so bad these days?
  • - Is this natural to say?
  • Thanks very much to Teachers, Stevenukd.
  • Hi, Here are a few definitions of indifferent: Having no marked feeling for or against: She remained indifferent toward their proposal.
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StevenukdDear Teachers,

1. Why have you been so indifferent to your girlfriend and treated her so bad these days?

- Is this natural to say?

Thanks very much to Teachers,

Stevenukd.
Hi,

Here are a few definitions of indifferent:
  1. Having no marked feeling for or against: She remained indif
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Hi,

Why have you been so indifferent to your girlfriend and treated her so bad these days?

I agreee with Hoa Thai about 'indifferent'. I'd like to focus on a couple of other points.

1. 'Badly', not 'bad'. You need an adverb.

2. The term 'these days' relates the question to the present period. The result is that your tenses don't so
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Hi,

Either 'bad' or 'badly' is okay because 'bad' is also an adverb albeit informal. "I need that money bad" is an example found in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English; however, the dictionary also quickly notes, "a word used to mean 'badly' which many people think is incorrect."

For an informally conversational sentence, I , myself, would not be too strict with 'bad' be
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