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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
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Is this sentence correct?

There are countless people who we can follow their footsteps or take a leaf out of book.
  

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eg There are countless people whose footsteps we can follow in or whose book we can take a leaf out of. Combining these two idioms makes your sentence seem clumsy.

  • eg There are countless people whose footsteps we can follow in or whose book we can take a leaf out of.
  • Combining these two idioms makes your sentence seem clumsy.
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eg There are countless people whose footsteps we can follow in or whose book we can take a leaf out of.

Combining these two idioms makes your sentence seem clumsy.

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