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TeacherJapan Posted 6 years ago
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Is this natural enough?

Is this correct and natural?

Reading is a way of widening your horizons and learning more about yourself by being exposed to other people’s ways of thinking in the comfort or your own home.

  

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There is a typo, "comfort or". It sounds native, but there are problems even so. "Widening your horizons" sounds like an unnecessary variation on "broadening your horizons", and even in its original form it is cliche.

— Anonymous

  • There is a typo, "comfort or".
  • It sounds native, but there are problems even so.
  • "Widening your horizons" sounds like an unnecessary variation on "broadening your horizons", and even in its original form it is cliche.
  • The passive "being exposed" is not ideal, but "exposing yourself" is even worse.
  • "In the comfort of your own home" is cliche and sounds like an anticlimactic afterthought.
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There is a typo, "comfort or".

It sounds native, but there are problems even so. "Widening your horizons" sounds like an unnecessary variation on "broadening your horizons", and even in its original form it is cliche. The passive "being exposed" is not ideal, but "exposing yourself" is even worse. "In the comfort of your own home" is cliche and sounds like an anticlimactic afterthought.

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teacherJapan

Is this correct and natural?

Reading is a way of widening your horizons and learning more about yourself by being exposed to other people’s ways of thinking in the comfort or your own home.

Here's my version for your comparison:

Reading is a way of widening your horizons and learning more about yourself because it exposes y

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