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Dido Posted 18 years ago
Vocabulary

owe

Any suggestions to replace the word "owe" with a synonym in this sentence?

My parents' education owe much more to reading than to formal instruction.

Thanks!
  

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Dido Any suggestions to replace the word "owe" with a synonym in this sentence? My parents' education owe much more to reading than to formal instruction. Thanks!

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  • Dido Any suggestions to replace the word "owe" with a synonym in this sentence?
  • My parents' education owe much more to reading than to formal instruction.
  • Thanks!
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DidoAny suggestions to replace the word "owe" with a synonym in this sentence?

My parents' education owe much more to reading than to formal instruction.

Thanks!
...can be attributed more to reading than to formal instruction (?)
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are dervied from

are due to

are based

-- but you'll have to do a bit of a rewrite for some: .... are due to reading much more than formal instruction.
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DidoMy parents' education owes much more to reading than to formal instruction.
Another suggestion:

My parents' education can be ascribed to reading rather than formal instruction.

CB
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I'd use the singular, even though each of them has their own education:

My parents' education owes much more to reading than to formal instruction.
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My parents are autodidacts (?)
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I think I'd stick with the verb "owe"; but I'd make it past tense:

1. My parents' education owed more to X than Y.

(Welcome to EF, Delmobile!)

MrP
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And thanks for your welcome, Mr. P.
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