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Aditileo Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Is this sentence correct?

I shall take your leave now.
What's wrong with this sentence?
  

Top answer

Nothing. But it is very formal and old-fashioned.

— Clive

  • Nothing.
  • But it is very formal and old-fashioned.
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Nothing.
But it is very formal and old-fashioned.
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I do not take your leave. I take my leave when I take leave of you. You take your leave when you take leave of me. I might beg your leave to do something. All that is quaint to the point of comedy.
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aditileo I shall take your leave now.What's wrong with this sentence?
1. You can't take someone else's leave — just your own.
2. Both 'shall' and 'to take one's leave' are falling out of use in modern English, so the whole sentence seems very old-fashioned.

CJ
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