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Filip Meeussen Posted 14 years ago
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"therefore that" ?
A colleague of mine came up with following sentence:
"The project looked promising therefore that the products would achieve good results in an attempt to optimize the price-quality ratio."
I am not a native speaker but this sounds very odd to me. What does "therefore that" mean in this sentence? Can we say it like this? Is it correct English?
Any help from native speakers is greatly appreciated!
"The project looked promising therefore that the products would achieve good results in an attempt to optimize the price-quality ratio."
I am not a native speaker but this sounds very odd to me. What does "therefore that" mean in this sentence? Can we say it like this? Is it correct English?
Any help from native speakers is greatly appreciated!
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" Your colleague's sentence is fine. ) "Therefore that" is not the actual collocation. We got the loan!
- " Your colleague's sentence is fine.
- ) "Therefore that" is not the actual collocation.
- We got the loan!
- Therefore it seems likely that we shall succeed.
- We got the loan!
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Filip Meeussen"The project looked promising therefore that the products would achieve good results in an attempt to optimize the price-quality ratio."Your colleague's sentence is fine. (Well, there's always room for improvement.)
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'Therefore that' can occur together (but only in reverse order, I think) and not in your sentence. That sentence should read:
The project looked promising; therefore the products should achieve good results in an attempt to optimize the price-quality ratio.
Here is 'that therefore' in a possible structure:
We thought that the project looked promi
The project looked promising; therefore the products should achieve good results in an attempt to optimize the price-quality ratio.
Here is 'that therefore' in a possible structure:
We thought that the project looked promi
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Thank you for your reply. This is exactly what I thaught as well. But as you see, people disagree with us...
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Thanks for your reply Avangi.
I understand what you are saying. However, I see one big difference between your example and my sentence:
"It seems likely therefore that we shall succeed": "therefore" indeed refers to the preceding text. "Therefore, it seems likely that...." is a correct sentence.
"The project looked promising therefore that the products would achieve good results": "The
I understand what you are saying. However, I see one big difference between your example and my sentence:
"It seems likely therefore that we shall succeed": "therefore" indeed refers to the preceding text. "Therefore, it seems likely that...." is a correct sentence.
"The project looked promising therefore that the products would achieve good results": "The
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I've changed my opinion from earlier, however; now these look equally possible:
We thought that the project looked promising and that therefore the products should achieve good results.
We thought that the project looked promising and therefore that the products should achieve good results.
We thought that the project looked promising and that therefore the products should achieve good results.
We thought that the project looked promising and therefore that the products should achieve good results.
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The writer botched it, and properly punctuated it becomes clear how: "The project looked promising, therefore, that the products would achieve good results in an attempt to optimize the price-quality ratio."
His mistake is in his construction of "promise". He mixed up "the project showed promise" and "gave the promise of good results in an attempt to optimize the price-quality ratio of th
His mistake is in his construction of "promise". He mixed up "the project showed promise" and "gave the promise of good results in an attempt to optimize the price-quality ratio of th
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Filip MeeussenSo the difference is that you can say "it is likely that" but you can not say "it looks promising that". And therefore I still think my sentence is wrong. Any comments?I agree. You're exactly right. The sentence did not read well, and I immediately regretted saying it was "fine." But I decided to try to answer your question as it was framed.
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Perfect! So, we all agree that the sentence was wrong. I have corrected it.
Thanks to everyone for helping me!
Thanks to everyone for helping me!
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Your colleague is misusing plausibility with absolutes in different tenses.
He stating that because one thing did happen, another would happen (using plausible future)
He would better to state because one thing did happen another also happened. Consider the following correction.
"The project looked promising, therefore the products achieved good results in an a
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