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Alc24 Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
Instead of vs rather than
Could you say both?
1 If you had helped, we all would have died instead of just him./rather than just him.
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1 If you had helped, we all would have died instead of just him./rather than just him.
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Either choice is fine. However, do you mean if you hadn't helped ?
- Either choice is fine.
- However, do you mean if you hadn't helped ?
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Yes it is correct English.
So is "we would all have died", and "We would have all died".
I'm wondering whether you really intended to say that it was better NOT to get help? I mean usually if you help someone it makes things better so that fewer people die, unless the helper doesn't know what he or she is doing and makes a dangerous mistake.
Did you perhaps mean, "If you had not
So is "we would all have died", and "We would have all died".
I'm wondering whether you really intended to say that it was better NOT to get help? I mean usually if you help someone it makes things better so that fewer people die, unless the helper doesn't know what he or she is doing and makes a dangerous mistake.
Did you perhaps mean, "If you had not
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