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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
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prone to it

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Once you get the sickness, you are prone to it for the rest of your life.
  

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Anonymous Once you get the sickness, you are prone to it for the rest of your life. " "Prone" describes a potential. You'd be talking about a recurrence of the sickness here, not about a situation in which "the sickness" never goes away.

  • Anonymous Once you get the sickness, you are prone to it for the rest of your life.
  • " "Prone" describes a potential.
  • You'd be talking about a recurrence of the sickness here, not about a situation in which "the sickness" never goes away.
  • With some diseases you could say that you always have "the sickness" but the symptoms sometimes go away and then return again.
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AnonymousOnce you get the sickness, you are prone to it for the rest of your life.
I'd say "Once you have had the sickness, you are prone to it for the rest of your life."

"Prone" describes a potential. You'd be talking about a recurrence of the sickness here,
not about a situation in which "the sickness" never goes away.

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