Prepositions
1. Are these sentences correct:
a) "That's not doable, because you don't know if they would like their story to be converted into a book, and you would be profiting at the expense of someone's else name and story."
b) "That's not doable, because you don't know if they agree in their story being converted into a book, and you would be profiting at the expense of someone's else name and story."
c) "That's not doable, because you don't know if they are agreeable in their story being converted into a book, and you would be profiting at the expense of someone's else name and story."
2. And between the two last sentences, which one sounds better?
Top answer
None of them really work. The basic phrase is to profit at someone else's expense, meaning to do something that will benefit you but will harm someone else. If you phrase it in the form to profit at the expense of _____ , you need to either specify who will be harmed, or what harm they will suffer, not what will be used.
- None of them really work.
- The basic phrase is to profit at someone else's expense, meaning to do something that will benefit you but will harm someone else.
- If you phrase it in the form to profit at the expense of _____ , you need to either specify who will be harmed, or what harm they will suffer, not what will be used.
- As far as the first part of the sentence is concerned: A is possible, "That's not doable, because you don't know if they would like their story to be converted into a book" .
- B would work if you rewrote it as "That's not doable, because you don't know if they would (or will ) agree to their story being converted into a book".
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None of them really work. The basic phrase is to profit at someone else's expense, meaning to do something that will benefit you but will harm someone else. If you phrase it in the form to profit at the expense of _____, you need to either specify who will be harmed, or what harm they will suffer, not what will be used.
As far as the first part of the sentenc
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