Sentence construction
There is nothing more beneficial to your growth than the brutally honest words of someone who knows.
Can this sentence be re-written: There is nothing more beneficial than the brutally words of someone who knows to your growth.?
I think it's possible, because originally the second sentence is correct, but "to your growth" being short it is placed before "than..."
Am I correct?
If so, can you suggest another example that follows the same sentence construction?
Thank you so much.
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shcho23 Can this sentence be re-written: There is nothing more beneficial than the brutally honest words of someone who knows to your growth.? I think it's possible, It may be theoretically possible, but it is a poor sentence -- hard to understand, and inferior to the original. One starts to read "someone who knows to your growth" as a phrase, and when this doesn't work out, one has to go back and try to re-parse the sentence.
- shcho23 Can this sentence be re-written: There is nothing more beneficial than the brutally honest words of someone who knows to your growth.?
- I think it's possible, It may be theoretically possible, but it is a poor sentence -- hard to understand, and inferior to the original.
- One starts to read "someone who knows to your growth" as a phrase, and when this doesn't work out, one has to go back and try to re-parse the sentence.
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shcho23Can this sentence be re-written: There is nothing more beneficial than the brutally honest words of someone who knows to your growth.? I think it's possible,
It may be theoretically possible, but it is a poor sentence -- hard to understand, and inferior to the original. One starts to read "someone who knows to your
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