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New2grammar Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

misfortune.

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00A: It was a bad day for me. I got into a car accident. It was a misfortune.0-
  

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0Why not - an accident is a misfortune! 050010id5

— Feebs11

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0Why not - an accident is a misfortune! 050010id5
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0 It's a new word to me. I don't have much confidence in using it. Thanks. Feebs. 0-
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01cite10New2grammar12cite10A: It was a bad day for me. I got into a car accident. It was a misfortune.12blockquote
10It seems redundant to make a second sentence out of it, since it doesn't add anything new. We'd probably express this thought by saying, "I got into an unfortunate car accident."02br
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0Thanks, Avangi. I tried to come up with an example and that was the best I could think of. 050010id6
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