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Milky Posted 20 years ago
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0Looking for personal opinions on the sentences below. Is the use of the verb 01i00abort02i00 acceptable to you there?02br
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00I01i00n case of this type of genetic malformation, the embryo 02i00will abort00.02br
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01i00In case of this type of genetic malformation, an embryo 01i00will abort itself00.00 02i02i02br
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0Hello Milky02br 02br 00The first version seems fine, but not the second, as I don't believe an embryo has the ability to abort itself. )02br 02br 00MrP0-

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  • 0Hello Milky02br 02br 00The first version seems fine, but not the second, as I don't believe an embryo has the ability to abort itself.
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0Hello Milky02br
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00The first version seems fine, but not the second, as I don't believe an embryo has the ability to abort itself. 02br
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0I am not exactly sure of the complete context but embryo does not abort have the ability to abort. The process of aborting therefore must be carried out by a doctor. So personally, I would say "In the event of genetic defects, the embryo will be aborted". 02br
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10Hello Milky12br
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10The first version seems fine, but not the second, as I don't believe an embryo has the ability to abort itself. 12br
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01cite10Goodman12cite10I am not exactly sure of the complete context but embryo does not abort have the ability to abort. The process of aborting therefore must be carried out by a doctor. So personally, I would say "In the event of genetic defects, the embryo will be aborted". 12br
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0Hi,02br
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00 I would like to comment on the article THE usage. When we use the before a noun, I think that we are talking about specific thing that is mentioned before. But 'an" refers to any embryo in the world. Besides, the embryo could not abort itself.02br
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0The first sentence is a correct use of the intransitive verb abort, I think: to cease growth before full development or maturation.02br
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00Because the verb may also be transitive, an embryo may be aborted, as well.02br
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01cite10Ikia12cite10The first sentence is a correct use of the intransitive verb abort, I think: to cease growth before full development or maturation.12br
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10Because the verb may also be transitive, an embryo may be aborted, as well.12br
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0If you say "will be aborted," that definitely says that someone else will be doing the aborting. The parents decide they don't want a child with this kind of defect, so they have a doctor perform the abortion, for example. It's a less likely meaning, to me, when reading this, that the mother's body would do it naturally.02br
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00If you mean that the mother's body will nat
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0Reconsidering the question, I would say "will abort" where I didn't want to express the agent, or where I wanted to avoid an anatomically accurate but unnecessary explanation (e.g. "in the event of X, Y will happen in the mother's body, and Z will ABC the embryo"). 02br
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00On the other hand, I might say "the embryo will abort itself" in full knowledge that an embryo does
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01cite10MrPedantic12cite10Reconsidering the question, I would say "will abort" where I didn't want to express the agent, or where I wanted to avoid an anatomically accurate but unnecessary explanation (e.g. "in the event of X, Y will happen in the mother's body, and Z will ABC the embryo"). 12br
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