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Michelle Cha Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

Please check out this sentence.

'People are reluctant to think too much not only due to laziness but also limitation of thinking'.


Please check out this sentence whether it is grammatical and makes sense.

Thank you.

  

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The parallelism is not quite right. It can be fixed like this: People are reluctant to think too much due not only to laziness but also to limitation of thinking. According to the traditional rule, "due to" is incorrectly used, but few people observe that rule now.

  • The parallelism is not quite right.
  • It can be fixed like this: People are reluctant to think too much due not only to laziness but also to limitation of thinking.
  • According to the traditional rule, "due to" is incorrectly used, but few people observe that rule now.
  • I feel that the phrase "limitation of thinking" could be expressed better or more clearly.
  • Do you mean something like limited imagination or limited intellectual ability?
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The parallelism is not quite right. It can be fixed like this:

People are reluctant to think too much due not only to laziness but also to limitation of thinking.

According to the traditional rule, "due to" is incorrectly used, but few people observe that rule now.

I feel that the phrase "limitation of thinking" could be expressed better or more c

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