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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
Grammar
tends to be the mode vs is fashionable nowadays
I didn't blab my love affair to the press as these days tends to be the mode.
This sentence was repharased by my teacher in I didn't blab my love affair to the press as is fashionable nowadays.
She pointed out that my sentence was wrong and follows the italian pattern.
I very much prefer my version since it sounds a bit snobbier and more literary (mode is a loanword).
Alan Bennett, the famous english writer, used that pattern in his http://www.faber.co.uk/article_detail.html?aid=27660moreover google gives 105,000 entries for "tends to be the mode".
Is this expression grammatically correct?
If yes does it sound so awkward to the layman?
This sentence was repharased by my teacher in I didn't blab my love affair to the press as is fashionable nowadays.
She pointed out that my sentence was wrong and follows the italian pattern.
I very much prefer my version since it sounds a bit snobbier and more literary (mode is a loanword).
Alan Bennett, the famous english writer, used that pattern in his http://www.faber.co.uk/article_detail.html?aid=27660moreover google gives 105,000 entries for "tends to be the mode".
Is this expression grammatically correct?
If yes does it sound so awkward to the layman?
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