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User_gary Posted 17 years ago
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Pity, pathetic,
I took pity on him.
I feel pity on him.
I feel pity for him.
He is looking pathetic.
He is looking pity.
He is pity.
Please correct my sentences. And also tell me the common version to mean "he is pity". Thanks.
I feel pity on him.
I feel pity for him.
He is looking pathetic.
He is looking pity.
He is pity.
Please correct my sentences. And also tell me the common version to mean "he is pity". Thanks.
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T hese are correct: I took pity on him. I feel pity for him. He is looking pathetic.
- T hese are correct: I took pity on him.
- I feel pity for him.
- He is looking pathetic.
- ( 'pathetic' usually implies some scorn as well as pity ) He is looking piteous .
- He is piteous .
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These are correct:
I took pity on him.
I feel pity for him.
He is looking pathetic. ('pathetic' usually implies some scorn as well as pity)
He is looking piteous.
He is piteous.
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These are correct:
I took pity on him.
I feel pity for him.
He is looking pathetic. ('pathetic' usually implies some scorn as well as pity)
He is looking piteous.
He is piteous.
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Thank you mister micawber. I want to know do that last two sentences mean the same?
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Well, not exactly. The first says that he appears to be piteous, while the second asserts that he is so.
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Well, not exactly. The first says that he appears to be piteous, while the second asserts that he is so.
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