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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
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PLease correct this

Does this sound correct?

Decision making would be a tough job when confronted with a range of difficult choices.
Decision making would be a tough job while being confronted with a range of difficult choices.
  

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The decision making isn't being confronted with a range of choices, so you need a different way to say this. It would be a tough job to make a decision if you were confronted with a range of difficult choices. It is a tough job to make a decision when (you are) confronted with a range of difficult choices.

— CalifJim

  • The decision making isn't being confronted with a range of choices, so you need a different way to say this.
  • It would be a tough job to make a decision if you were confronted with a range of difficult choices.
  • It is a tough job to make a decision when (you are) confronted with a range of difficult choices.
  • CJ
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The decision making isn't being confronted with a range of choices, so you need a different way to say this.

It would be a tough job to make a decision if you were confronted with a range of difficult choices.

It is a tough job to make a decision when (you are) confronted with a range of difficult choices.

CJ
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Thanks, Jim. Would it be okay to say: Decision making would be a tough job when Mr. X was being confronted with difficult choices.
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No. The best you could do, and still retain most of what you've written, would be:

Decision making would have been a tough job when Mr. X was being confronted with difficult choices.

But even that is somewhat anomalous.

would be and when ... was don't really go together.

CJ
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