Is my sentence using ‘unknowingly’ and ‘encourages/emboldens’ correct?
Is my sentence using ‘unknowingly’ and ‘encourages/emboldens’ correct? Can I replace ‘whom he unknowingly encourages/emboldens’ with ‘who are eventually encouraged/emboldened’?
Jason said: “When we children have quarrels and fistfights inside our house, my stepfather usually take sides with my stepbrothers, (whom he unknowingly encourages/emboldens, who are eventually encouraged/emboldened) to commit further misconduct.”
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Yes, but now you have dropped the word 'unknowingly', thus changing the meaning a bit. Words like 'emboldens' and 'misconduct' make your sentence seem rather stiff and unnatural.
- Yes, but now you have dropped the word 'unknowingly', thus changing the meaning a bit.
- Words like 'emboldens' and 'misconduct' make your sentence seem rather stiff and unnatural.
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Yes, but now you have dropped the word 'unknowingly', thus changing the meaning a bit.
Words like 'emboldens' and 'misconduct' make your sentence seem rather stiff and unnatural.
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