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Pamela81 Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Please help me!!

Hi,

I wished to say the following sentence but I didn´t because I knew that it wasn´t correct. Please check:

"Without your help, I would have kept on repeating the same mistake"

Doubt regarding these sentence:

- Is "to keep on" a synonym for "to go on" or "to continue"??

- would a native English speaker use these verbs and tense?

Second case:

"Without your help, I would repeat the same mistake"

I think it is ok, what do you think?

Thanks

Pamela
  

Top answer

The first sentence is correct, although 'repeating' and 'the same' sort of mean the same thing, so I would use 'making'. Yes, 'to keep' can mean 'to go on' or 'to continue', and yes, a native would use this tense, but would probably use the verb 'to make' instead of 'to repeat'/ And yes, the second is also correct.

— Akshay Bilolikar

  • The first sentence is correct, although 'repeating' and 'the same' sort of mean the same thing, so I would use 'making'.
  • Yes, 'to keep' can mean 'to go on' or 'to continue', and yes, a native would use this tense, but would probably use the verb 'to make' instead of 'to repeat'/ And yes, the second is also correct.
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The first sentence is correct, although 'repeating' and 'the same' sort of mean the same thing, so I would use 'making'. Yes, 'to keep' can mean 'to go on' or 'to continue', and yes, a native would use this tense, but would probably use the verb 'to make' instead of 'to repeat'/

And yes, the second is also correct.
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Hi,

thanks for the reply. I really doubted it was correct because I transalted it from Italian to English and often it doesn´t work.

Thank you for the suggestions given

Regards

Pamela
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