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Sandy Ho Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
Intimate affection has taken shape?
Hi, there
By degrees, intimate affection has taken shape in the long course of time.
Please check and improve my sentence, thanks.
By degrees, intimate affection has taken shape in the long course of time.
Please check and improve my sentence, thanks.
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Hi, By degrees, intimate affection has taken shape in the long course of time. Please check and improve my sentence, 'By degrees ' and 'in the long course of time' seem to have somewhat similar meanings. Can you delte one of these phrases?
- Hi, By degrees, intimate affection has taken shape in the long course of time.
- Please check and improve my sentence, 'By degrees ' and 'in the long course of time' seem to have somewhat similar meanings.
- Can you delte one of these phrases?
- Isn't all affection 'intimate'?
- It doesn't sound right to me to say that affection has 'taken shape'.
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Hi,
By degrees, intimate affection has taken shape in the long course of time.
Please check and improve my sentence,
'By degrees ' and 'in the long course of time' seem to have somewhat similar meanings. Can you delte one of these phrases?
Isn't all affection 'intimat
By degrees, intimate affection has taken shape in the long course of time.
Please check and improve my sentence,
'By degrees ' and 'in the long course of time' seem to have somewhat similar meanings. Can you delte one of these phrases?
Isn't all affection 'intimat
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Reciprocal affection starts to kick in in the long course of time.
Sorry. I'm at my wit's end. I was tring to say that at first there was no spark in a relationship. Gradually, the ralationship became an intimate one, yet it took so long a time to form.
Sorry. I'm at my wit's end. I was tring to say that at first there was no spark in a relationship. Gradually, the ralationship became an intimate one, yet it took so long a time to form.
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A second thoughts
By slow degrees, it blossoms into a feeling of love.
Does this sound OK?
By slow degrees, it blossoms into a feeling of love.
Does this sound OK?
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Basically 'it' here refers to the relationship. If 'it' may also refer to 'they have worked together for a long time', or 'glance each other in a bar for a long while'. ect.
Does the sentence still work?
Does the sentence still work?
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Hi,
'It' needs to refer to a thing (a noun or a noun equivalent).
eg By slow degrees, their glances have blossomed into a feeling of love.
Clive
'It' needs to refer to a thing (a noun or a noun equivalent).
eg By slow degrees, their glances have blossomed into a feeling of love.
Clive
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