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Vsuresh Posted 7 years ago
Grammar

Sentence correctness

Hi

Please tell me if this is grammatical.

To think that a long time friend has done such a thing makes me feel very bitter.
  

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To think that a longtime friend has done such a thing makes me feel very bitter. As corrected. It is natural casual English.

  • To think that a longtime friend has done such a thing makes me feel very bitter.
  • As corrected.
  • It is natural casual English.
  • "To think that" is idiomatic, and the meaning is not this one, but it easily adapts to a plain meaning as here, and I can easily imagine anybody saying it.
  • I would recast if I wrote it, but that's me.
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To think that a longtime friend has done such a thing makes me feel very bitter.

As corrected. It is natural casual English. "To think that" is idiomatic, and the meaning is not this one, but it easily adapts to a plain meaning as here, and I can easily imagine anybody saying it. I would recast if I wrote it, but tha

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