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Vibhanu Posted 13 years ago
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What is correct?

Doctors couldn't find any sort of cause for the disease.
Doctors couldn't find any sort of a cause for the disease.
  

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Vibhanu Doctors couldn't find any sort of cause for the disease. That's correct. The other one sounds really odd to me...

— MrGuedes

  • Vibhanu Doctors couldn't find any sort of cause for the disease.
  • That's correct.
  • The other one sounds really odd to me...
  • I doubt it's also right, but maybe it is, and I don't know.
  • I recommend you use the first one.
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VibhanuDoctors couldn't find any sort of cause for the disease.
That's correct. The other one sounds really odd to me... I doubt it's also right, but maybe it is, and I don't know. I recommend you use the first one.
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The first one seems Ok to me. I do not put 'a' before 'kind of' and 'sort of'.
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Doctors couldn't find the cause of the disease.
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