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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
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Is this sentence correct?

Is this sentence correct?
In this scene you are going to see him about to take out the cop's eye with a knife when he gets stopped.

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Anonymous are going to see him about to This combination is a bit odd. We read "are going to see", and we expect we're going to see something. Then you write "about to", so that's even before anything happens that we can see.

— CalifJim

  • Anonymous are going to see him about to This combination is a bit odd.
  • We read "are going to see", and we expect we're going to see something.
  • Then you write "about to", so that's even before anything happens that we can see.
  • I expect that you would do as well to omit "about to" because I think that's what you mean.
  • The antecedent of "he" is a little ambiguous.
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Anonymousare going to see him about to
This combination is a bit odd. We read "are going to see", and we expect we're going to see something. Then you write "about to", so that's even before anything happens that we can see. I expect that you would do as well to omit "about to" because I think that's what you mean.

The antecedent of "he" is a littl
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