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Anonymous Posted 8 years ago
Grammar
Is the sentence below correct?
However, there was a difference he could tell:.......
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, it's incomplete. Please show us the complete sentence.
- , it's incomplete.
- Please show us the complete sentence.
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Yes, it's semantically incomplete, hence the semicolon... I was more interested in the grammatical aspect of the sentence and its naturalness.
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anonymous However, there was a difference he could tell:.......
It sounds to me like you're trying to say
However, he noticed a difference: ...
It strikes me as strange to use a construction like 'tell a difference'. It seems to be a sort of corruption of 'tell the difference between'.
CJ
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