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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
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Is this sentence correct?

Is this sentence correct?
About a psychic
As the reading progressed, he put/was putting a lot of trust in me.

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Anonymous As the reading progressed This has the meaning of something on-going, so the rest of the sentence needs to be consistent with that idea. Anonymous a lot of trust in me This has the meaning of one degree of trust, not an increasing sense of trust, which is what you need in order to be consistent with the first part. You could try "more and more".

— CalifJim

  • Anonymous As the reading progressed This has the meaning of something on-going, so the rest of the sentence needs to be consistent with that idea.
  • Anonymous a lot of trust in me This has the meaning of one degree of trust, not an increasing sense of trust, which is what you need in order to be consistent with the first part.
  • You could try "more and more".
  • Anonymous As the reading progressed, he put/was putting a lot of trust in me.
  • My suggestion: As the reading progressed, he began to put more and more trust in me.
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AnonymousAs the reading progressed
This has the meaning of something on-going, so the rest of the sentence needs to be consistent with that idea.
Anonymousa lot of trust in me
This has the meaning of one degree of trust, not an increasing sense of trust, which is what you need in order to be consistent with the first part.
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