Sentence correction please..

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1)What are you asking her to do ?

2)Even the fact of matter is that she is not willing to say sorry even when she does something terrible.

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These are what I just said without thinking.
1) was to mean what is worth asking?
2) was to mean knowing the fact that she is a kind of person who is not .......

Can I say what are you asking her for?

How would you combine the two sentences, if possible, with natural English?

Sorry for my bad English. And Thank you for doing surgery on my sentence.

Clive · Accepted Answer

Hi,

1)What are you asking her to do ? This is fine.

2)Even the fact of matter is that she is not willing to say sorry even when she does something terrible. No, say it like this.

The fact of the matter is that she is not willing to say sorry, even when she does something terrible.

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These are what I just said without thinking.

1) was to mean what is worth asking? I don't understand what you mean here.
2) was to mean knowing the fact that she is a kind of person who is not ..I don't understand what you mean here.

Can I say what are you asking her for? Yes, you can, but without 'do' you are not clearly asking about an action.

How would you combine the two sentences, if possible, with natural English? Do you mean the first two sentences above? Why would you want to combine them? They don't seem related at all.

Sorry for my bad English. And Thank you for doing surgery on my sentence.

Clive

C2ran · Answer

CliveThese are what I just said without thinking.
1) was to mean what is worth asking? I don't understand what you mean here.
2) was to mean knowing the fact that she is a kind of person who is not ..I don't understand what you mean here.

First of all, Thank you so much for taking care of this silly question.
Thank you!

What I meant was
Sentence no.1 was supposed to mean (or, By the sentence no.1, I was trying to say) that 'what is worth asking?'
and sentence no.2 ' Knowing the fact that she is a kind of person who is not say sorry ... '

I am sorry. Looking at these two questions again, even I took a moment to think about what was my intention asking these questions. What a stupid. Sorry but maybe I was too confused back then.
By the way, here is a new question. ^^

I have considered 'be+to infinitive' to have similar meaning to 'be supposed to'.
ex) He is to meet his new teacher this morning. (He is supposed to meet his new teacher ...)
You are not to go there. ( You are not supposed to go there.)

Because in my non-native intuition these two are felt to be alike.
In your native intuition, do you feel the similarity or (totally) different?
If these are alike are those interchangeable?

P.S.
As I was typing, I looked up Practical English Usage, Swan for information about 'be+to inf.'
OMG, I found he put 'be+passive inf.' under this category, which means the sentence in the previous post that includes 'to be offered' as a part was related to 'be+to inf.' in grammar.
I never thought it would have anything to do with it. I just viewed the part 'to be offered' as a plain 'to inf.' , but with the form of passive, not perceiving it had special meaning inside as 'be+inf.' would have.

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CliveHow would you combine the two sentences, if possible, with natural English? Do you mean the first two sentences above? Why would you want to combine them? They don't seem related at all.

Yes, it is true. And it is a good piece of advice.

" What do you expect from her, knowing she is the kind of person who doesn't even say sorry even when she does something terrible. "

If I change it like this, is this maybe okay..?

Anyway
Thank you, Clive for your HUGE help!!

Clive · Answer

Hi,
here is a new question. ^^ Next time, please start a new thread for a new question.

I have considered 'be+to infinitive' to have similar meaning to 'be supposed to'.
ex) He is to meet his new teacher this morning. (He is supposed to meet his new teacher ...)
You are not to go there. ( You are not supposed to go there.)

Because in my non-native intuition these two are felt to be alike. Yes

In your native intuition, do you feel the similarity or (totally) different?
If these are alike are those interchangeable? I don't like to say things are interchangable. Much depends on the context.

eg The plane is to land at 3 pm. This refers more to a schedule.

P.S.
As I was typing, I looked up Practical English Usage, Swan for information about 'be+to inf.'
OMG, I found he put 'be+passive inf.' under this category, which means the sentence in the previous post that includes 'to be offered' as a part was related to 'be+to inf.' in grammar.
I never thought it would have anything to do with it. I just viewed the part 'to be offered' as a plain 'to inf.' , but with the form of passive, not perceiving it had special meaning inside as 'be+inf.' would have.

(There will be an information session this Friday about the professional-development seminars to be offered beginning in June.) This is fine.

Clive

C2ran · Answer

CliveNext time, please start a new thread for a new question.

I will~

I was asking too many things maybe.
Your remarks were great help. Thank you.

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