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Jackson6612 Posted 19 years ago
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There is no thing called favour in politics.

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0 Neither sentence makes much sense to me, Jackson.02br
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00I assume that the first one is supposed to mean "There is no such thing as a favour in politics."0-
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1b00Both of your sentences make very little sense.02br
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01b00Do you mean to say “there is no 01font00such02font00 thing 01font00as02font00 favor in politics”? 02b02br
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0 Hi Goodman02br
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00What part of speech is your "favor"? A verb?02br
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00In my sentence, favor is a noun and the intended meaning is that nobody really does anyone a favor/any favors in politics. In other words, in politics "favors" are not done as "free-of-charge acts of goodwill" (the usual definition of a favor). "Favors" in politics are not r
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1b00Hi Amy,02b02br
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01b00I am mystified by your question. “Favor” of course is a noun. What else can it be, besdies hands of politicians scratching each other backs?00 00What I said was a “figure of speech” and was not what it intended to mean. I think there is a dicconnect somewhere along the line here. Are we on the same wave length?050
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0 Hi Goodman02br
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00Well, favor is a verb, too.02br
00I suppose it was the lack of an article in front of 'favor' that caused the line to break up.050010id5
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0<<Do you mean to say “there is no 01font00such02font00 thing 01font00as02font00 favor in politics”? >> This is what I said in general.02br
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00I didn't see a need for article in front of "favor", and I realized "favor" can be used in verb form but not in this context. Per
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01cite10Goodman12cite10Do you mean to say “there is no 11font10such12font10 11font10a12font10 thing 11font10as12font10 favor in politics”? What do you think?12blockquote
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0Hi Amy,02br
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00Seeing things in different shades of light does not mean disagreeing. It gave me an opportunity to look at the same thing from differnt angles. Cheers0-
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11font11b10Seeing 12b10things in different shades of light does not mean disagreeing. It gave me an opportunity to look at the same thing from differnt angles.12font12br
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10Could the above sentence be written as:02br
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