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Anonymous Posted 9 years ago
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Is this composition right

A: Why do you still have never had a girlfriend?
B: I don't want to be modified.

I composed the B sentence (In a sense that I do not want to be a better man but to be a man who I am. I do not want more responsibilities, etc.)
  

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A: Why do you still have you never had a girlfriend? B: I don't want to be modified. <<<< If you said this to me, I wouldn't clearly understand your meaning.

— Clive

  • A: Why do you still have you never had a girlfriend?
  • B: I don't want to be modified.
  • <<<< If you said this to me, I wouldn't clearly understand your meaning.
  • Can you say it another way?
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A: Why do you still have you never had a girlfriend?

B: I don't want to be modified. <<<< If you said this to me, I wouldn't clearly understand your meaning. Can you say it another way?
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CliveB: I don't want to be modified. <<<< If you said this to me, I wouldn't clearly understand your meaning. Can you say it another way?
I don't want to be a qualified man. Is that fine?
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-Having a girlfriend will make me trapped in the box of better.

-I don't want to be trapped in the box of better.

-Thinking of being trapped in the box of better forces me into not having had a girlfriend.

-Allowing me to have a girlfriend causes me to be confined to qualifications of a better man.

Which is comprehensible?
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AnonymousWhich is comprehensible?
They are all difficult to understand, especially the last one. I think you mean "box of butter", but even if you do, it's not idiomatic in English to say "a box of butter".

You could just answer, "I don't want to be changed". And you could add "I'm happy as I am".

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