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Lcwang Posted 17 years ago
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Please advise if any of the following sentences is incorrect, and why, in terms of gramma rules :
1. We had no choice but leave the kids at home with their grandmother.
2. We had no choice but to leave the kids at home with their grandmother.
3. We had no choice but leaving the kids at home with their grandmother.
Is the but a conjunction in every sentence above?
Thank you for help.
1. We had no choice but leave the kids at home with their grandmother.
2. We had no choice but to leave the kids at home with their grandmother.
3. We had no choice but leaving the kids at home with their grandmother.
Is the but a conjunction in every sentence above?
Thank you for help.
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Lcwang Please advise if any of the following sentences is incorrect, and why, in terms of gramma rules : 1. We had no choice but leave the kids at home with their grandmother. 2.
- Lcwang Please advise if any of the following sentences is incorrect, and why, in terms of gramma rules : 1.
- We had no choice but leave the kids at home with their grandmother.
- 2.
- We had no choice but to leave the kids at home with their grandmother.
- 3.
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LcwangPlease advise if any of the following sentences is incorrect, and why, in terms of gramma rules :
1. We had no choice but leave the kids at home with their grandmother.
2. We had no choice but to leave the kids at home with their grandmother.
3. We had no choice but leaving the kids at home with their grandmother.
Is the but a conjun
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Hi,
Please advise if any of the following sentences is incorrect, and why, in terms of gramma rules :
1. We had no choice but leave the kids at home with their grandmother. I wouldn't say this is wrong, but the 'to' is usually not omitted.
2. We had no choice but to leave the kids at home with their grandmother.
3. We had no choice but leaving the kids at home with their gra
Please advise if any of the following sentences is incorrect, and why, in terms of gramma rules :
1. We had no choice but leave the kids at home with their grandmother. I wouldn't say this is wrong, but the 'to' is usually not omitted.
2. We had no choice but to leave the kids at home with their grandmother.
3. We had no choice but leaving the kids at home with their gra
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Thank you for your reply, GG. But do you mean the 2nd sentence is correct or incorrect?
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Hi, Clive. Thank you for reply. I have a further question though: Why are bare infinitives used after but in the following sentences?
We could do nothing but wait.
She could not help but cry in her way home.
Are the but's here function differently? Or are they just idiomatical?
We could do nothing but wait.
She could not help but cry in her way home.
Are the but's here function differently? Or are they just idiomatical?
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Hi Lcwang
I think your best bet is to simply learn these phrases as idiomatic units:
- have/had no choice but to do
- can/could do nothing but do
However, it might be worth looking at your sentences reworded in various ways:
- We had no choice but to leave the kids at home with their grandmother.
Our only choice was to leave the kids at home with their
I think your best bet is to simply learn these phrases as idiomatic units:
- have/had no choice but to do
- can/could do nothing but do
However, it might be worth looking at your sentences reworded in various ways:
- We had no choice but to leave the kids at home with their grandmother.
Our only choice was to leave the kids at home with their
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I'm sorry. When I wrote "This one" I meant to write "Use this one." #2, as the others have said, is the best choice.
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Thanks to you all. But I have one more question: Do the following sentences have the same meaning:
I have no doubt but that everything will be fine.
I have no doubt that everything will be fine.
I have no doubt but that everything will be fine.
I have no doubt that everything will be fine.
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