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Jackson6612 Posted 15 years ago
Grammar
There's a certain amount of comfort to be had in knowing
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If I had written the sentence below I wouldn't have used the bold part "to be had". It doesn't make sense to me. The sentence makes perfect sense to me without it. Please help me with it.
There's a certain amount of comfort to be had in knowing that even one of the coolest guys on the planet was a dweeb in middle school.
If I had written the sentence below I wouldn't have used the bold part "to be had". It doesn't make sense to me. The sentence makes perfect sense to me without it. Please help me with it.
There's a certain amount of comfort to be had in knowing that even one of the coolest guys on the planet was a dweeb in middle school.
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This is a tough one to explain, but the sentence is quite correct. " The best rewording I can make is changing the phrase to a clause in active voice: There is a certain amount of comfort that we feel (have/get) in knowing....
- This is a tough one to explain, but the sentence is quite correct.
- " The best rewording I can make is changing the phrase to a clause in active voice: There is a certain amount of comfort that we feel (have/get) in knowing....
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This is a tough one to explain, but the sentence is quite correct.
The infinitive phrase is in the passive voice, and modifies "comfort."
The best rewording I can make is changing the phrase to a clause in active voice:
There is a certain amount of comfort that we feel (have/get) in knowing....
The infinitive phrase is in the passive voice, and modifies "comfort."
The best rewording I can make is changing the phrase to a clause in active voice:
There is a certain amount of comfort that we feel (have/get) in knowing....
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Hi,
If I had written the sentence below I wouldn't have used the bold part "to be had". It doesn't make sense to me. The sentence makes perfect sense to me without it. Please help me with it.
There's a certain amount of comfort to be had in knowing that even one of t
If I had written the sentence below I wouldn't have used the bold part "to be had". It doesn't make sense to me. The sentence makes perfect sense to me without it. Please help me with it.
There's a certain amount of comfort to be had in knowing that even one of t
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