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Bepleased Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

The world is so big that nothing is to be surprised at

Hi,

In "The world is so big that nothing is to be surprised at",
Can it be rephrased that The world is so big that nothing is the thing at which someone is surprised?

Thank you for your help.
  

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The sentence "The world is so big that nothing is to be surprised at" is unnatural. It is understandable, and it is not wrong by any rule you could name, but we don't put it like that. " Your rephrasing is not far wrong grammatically, and it is close to being right for sense.

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  • The sentence "The world is so big that nothing is to be surprised at" is unnatural.
  • It is understandable, and it is not wrong by any rule you could name, but we don't put it like that.
  • " Your rephrasing is not far wrong grammatically, and it is close to being right for sense.
  • " You missed the meaning of "to be past participle at".
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The sentence "The world is so big that nothing is to be surprised at" is unnatural. It is understandable, and it is not wrong by any rule you could name, but we don't put it like that. "The world is so big that nothing should come as a surprise." Your rephrasing is not far wrong grammaticall
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