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Lucas21c Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Natural expression
Could you check whether the following sentences sound natural? (All of them are semantically same)
Although they sound okay, if you prefer one to the others, please tell me about it.
Thank you.
1. We work really hard to get all of our facts right, but ocassionally, mistakes do get through.
2. We work really hard to get all of our facts right, but ocassionally, there might be some mistakes that we couldn't detect.
3. We work really hard to get all of our facts right, but ocassionally, there might be some mistakes that we did miss.
Although they sound okay, if you prefer one to the others, please tell me about it.
Thank you.
1. We work really hard to get all of our facts right, but ocassionally, mistakes do get through.
2. We work really hard to get all of our facts right, but ocassionally, there might be some mistakes that we couldn't detect.
3. We work really hard to get all of our facts right, but ocassionally, there might be some mistakes that we did miss.
Top answer
This is by far the best choice: We work very hard to get all of our facts right, but occasionally mistakes do happen/occur.
- This is by far the best choice: We work very hard to get all of our facts right, but occasionally mistakes do happen/occur.
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This is by far the best choice:
We work very hard to get all of our facts right, but occasionally mistakes do happen/occur.
We work very hard to get all of our facts right, but occasionally mistakes do happen/occur.
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Is there any sematic or gramatical error among #1~#3?
If any of them sounds awkward or unnatural, please tell me about it.
If any of them sounds awkward or unnatural, please tell me about it.
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I have given you the appropriate construction. Abandon the others. They have a number of problems.
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