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Mr. Tom Posted 8 years ago
Vocabulary

The list of the guests had crossed 150...

Hi

Is this natural English?

The list of the guests had crossed 150. John was slightly uncomfortable at the tall list and had requested his mother to reconsider. She had smiled and said, "The more

  

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It doesn't sound completely natural to me. Who said or wrote this?

— Clive

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It doesn't sound completely natural to me.

Who said or wrote this?

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Thanks, Clive.

Could you please make it sound natural? I wrote it.

Tom

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Hi Tom,


Perhaps

The guest list (had) exceeded 150. John was slightly uncomfortable with the long list and asked his mother to reconsider. She smiled and said, …


requested is possible but probably too formal in a son-mother conversation


Also, there's no reason for using the past perfect there. The sequence of events is perfectly clear.

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As for idiom, the list can pass 150, but it can't cross it. Lists are long, not tall. You don't request someone to do something; you request that they do it. You ask someone to do it.

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