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Mr. Tom Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

New ideas hardly germinate with the people who are afraid of making mistakes.

Hi

Do you find this sentence natural, especially the use of the yellow word?

New ideas hardly germinate with the people who are afraid of making mistakes.

Thanks,

Tom
  

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Hi, Do you find this sentence natural, especially the use of the yellow word? 'Germinate' is not an odd word, but it is not tremendously common either. New ideas hardly germinate with the people who are afraid of making mistakes.

  • Hi, Do you find this sentence natural, especially the use of the yellow word?
  • 'Germinate' is not an odd word, but it is not tremendously common either.
  • New ideas hardly germinate with the people who are afraid of making mistakes.
  • Better is New ideas rarely germinate among people who are afraid of making mistakes.
  • New ideas rarely take root among people who are afraid of making mistakes.
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Hi,

Do you find this sentence natural, especially the use of the yellow word?

'Germinate' is not an odd word, but it is not tremendously common either.

New ideas hardly germinate with the people who are afraid of making mistakes.

Better is

New ideas rarely germinate among people who are afraid of making mistakes.

New ideas

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