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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

see your true nature

Is this natural please? Can you say 'see someone's true nature'?

Alcohol allows you to see people's true nature at times.

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"see someone's true nature" is correct and natural. However, your sentence is unclear about who is drinking the alcohol.

  • "see someone's true nature" is correct and natural.
  • However, your sentence is unclear about who is drinking the alcohol.
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"see someone's true nature" is correct and natural.

However, your sentence is unclear about who is drinking the alcohol.
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The person whose true nature you see is doing the drinking. Should I change the sentence?

Could you tell me how you would write the following please?

Can someone's true nature be 'to be there for someone and care for someone'?

You see someone's true nature when you ask them to do something while they are asleep in the middle of the night and what they do or how they resp
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AnonymousThe person whose true nature you see is doing the drinking. Should I change the sentence?
It may be that the rest of the context makes it clear. If not, you can either leave it alone and hope that most people will interpret it the way you want, or you could say something like "Alcohol can cause people to reveal their true nature" or "When they ar
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I see.

Could you tell me how you would have said this. I think I've gotten my point across?

You see someone's true nature when you ask them to do something while they are asleep in the middle of the night and what they do or how they respond subconsciously is their true nature. For example, I had a nightmare the other night and I woke my husband up and asked him to caress my hair
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Yes, your point is clear.

For me, the expression "blow me off" jars. It seems too crude for the context.
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Would you have said the underlined differently please?

You see someone's true nature when you ask them to do something while they are asleep in the middle of the night and what they do or how they respond subconsciously is their true nature. For example, I had a nightmare the other night and I woke my husband up and asked him to caress my
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Would you tell me would you say the underline bit differently in the text?

You see someone's true nature when you ask them to do something while they are asleep in the middle of the night and what they do or how they respond subconsciously is their true nature. For example, I had a nightmare the other night and I woke my husband up and asked him to caress my hair. He didn't blow me
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As I mentioned earlier, I do not like the expression "blow me off". For me, it triggers associations with vulgar meanings. Opinions may vary. Anyway, I made up something to go in its place.

"You see someone's true nature when you ask them to do something while they are asleep in the middle of the night. What they do or how they respond subconsciously reveals their true natur
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Hi GPY,

Could I ask you if subconsciously is the term to use and how I can phrase this?

In a dream, if you stay under water for a long time you can't drown, yet it seems that you can only stay under water for the same length of time as that you would in real life before having to come up for air. You subconscious tells you you need to come up for air even though your dreaming.
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In a dream, if you stay under water for a long time you can't drown, yet it seems that you can only stay under water for the same length of time as you could in real life before having to come up for air. Your subconscious tells you that you need to come up for air even though you're dreaming.

"that" is not mandatory but it reads better, especially as it breaks

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