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Jackson6612 Posted 19 years ago
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...let alone searching for their meanings!

Which of the following sentences is correct?

1: However, version two is painstakingly slow and it takes relatively a long time for letters you are typing to appear on the screen, let alone searching for their meanings!

2: However, version two is painstakingly slow and it takes relatively a long time for letters you are typing to appear on the screen let alone searching for their meanings!
  

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Neither seems very felicitious to me, Jackson. I wouldn't use 'let alone' in a sentence where the parallelism is so vague. However, Version 2 is painstakingly slow; you must wait a relatively long time for typed words to appear, not to mention the time required to search for their meanings!

  • Neither seems very felicitious to me, Jackson.
  • I wouldn't use 'let alone' in a sentence where the parallelism is so vague.
  • However, Version 2 is painstakingly slow; you must wait a relatively long time for typed words to appear, not to mention the time required to search for their meanings!
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Neither seems very felicitious to me, Jackson. I wouldn't use 'let alone' in a sentence where the parallelism is so vague.

However, Version 2 is painstakingly slow; you must wait a relatively long time for typed words to appear, not to mention the time required to search for their meanings!

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