Slipped attention
What words or phrases could I use to convey the following meaning:
Context: There is a movie I've just read about, it's a movie from 2010, a highly acclaimed one, yet unknown to me. I want to say sth like:
"somehow the movie slipped my attention"
"somehow the movie escaped my attention"
"somehow I missed that movie"
"somehow I missed watching the movie"
I hope you guys get what I mean. Is any of the above sentences correct? Do you have any other suggestion of how could that idea be conveyed?
Top answer
The simplest, easiest, and most useful is Somehow I missed that movie. Another of your attempts is grammatical but perhaps too formal for everyday use: Somehow that movie escaped my attention. The other two don't work.
- The simplest, easiest, and most useful is Somehow I missed that movie.
- Another of your attempts is grammatical but perhaps too formal for everyday use: Somehow that movie escaped my attention.
- The other two don't work.
- By the way, all of your sentences would be marked incorrect in a classroom situation because the first word is not capitalized and there is no final punctuation mark.
- CJ
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The simplest, easiest, and most useful is
Somehow I missed that movie.
Another of your attempts is grammatical but perhaps too formal for everyday use: Somehow that movie escaped my attention.
The other two don't work.
By the way, all of your sentences would be marked incorrect in a classroom situation because the first word is not capitalized and th
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