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Piano gray 814 Posted 6 years ago
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Words have never been able to convey even 1/1000 of my emotions.

  

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piano gray 814 Words have never been able to convey even 1/1000 of my emotions. Correct. However, I would write it thus: ...

  • piano gray 814 Words have never been able to convey even 1/1000 of my emotions.
  • Correct.
  • However, I would write it thus: ...
  • to convey even a thousandth of ...
  • Mathematical fractions look out of place in a sentence unless they're in a scientific paper that uses a lot of mathematics.
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piano gray 814

Words have never been able to convey even 1/1000 of my emotions.

Correct.

However, I would write it thus:

... to convey even a thousandth of ...

Mathematical fractions look out of place in a sentence unless they're in a scientific paper that uses a lot of mathematics.

CJ

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