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Eff Posted 17 years ago
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"to gather information from the Internet"
I´m arguing with my friend because he thinks that my sentence is awful:
I greatly gathered information from the Internet to get up-to-date facts.
He suggests this:
I made a great use of internet as a main source of up-to-date information.
As we are both non-native speakers, I wonder if my version really sounds weird to a native speaker. Thank you:-)
I greatly gathered information from the Internet to get up-to-date facts.
He suggests this:
I made a great use of internet as a main source of up-to-date information.
As we are both non-native speakers, I wonder if my version really sounds weird to a native speaker. Thank you:-)
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Neither version is natural. " You're intensifying the "amount" of the process and not the amount of the information. It's like saying "I greatly fished to fill my boat," or "I made a great use of my boat to get a good catch.
- Neither version is natural.
- " You're intensifying the "amount" of the process and not the amount of the information.
- It's like saying "I greatly fished to fill my boat," or "I made a great use of my boat to get a good catch.
- ) I'm not trying to be funny, just trying to show that the results are the important thing.
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Neither version is natural.
"I gathered a great deal of information etc."
You're intensifying the "amount" of the process and not the amount of the information. It's like saying "I greatly fished to fill my boat," or "I made a great use of my boat to get a good catch.
If you truly wish to emphasize the work you did rather than the results you obtained, then say, "I work
"I gathered a great deal of information etc."
You're intensifying the "amount" of the process and not the amount of the information. It's like saying "I greatly fished to fill my boat," or "I made a great use of my boat to get a good catch.
If you truly wish to emphasize the work you did rather than the results you obtained, then say, "I work
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Eff:
The word that sounds "weird" is "greatly". The adverb "greatly" does not make sense in the first sentence; the rest of it is OK.. Adverbs that are better are "frequently", "effectively", "productively", but they better fit the pattern:
I use the Internet productively / effectively / frequently / efficiently to get....
In the second sentence, I would use "good" rather t
The word that sounds "weird" is "greatly". The adverb "greatly" does not make sense in the first sentence; the rest of it is OK.. Adverbs that are better are "frequently", "effectively", "productively", but they better fit the pattern:
I use the Internet productively / effectively / frequently / efficiently to get....
In the second sentence, I would use "good" rather t
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AvangiIf you truly wish to emphasize the work you did rather than the results you obtained, then say, "I worked very hard gathering information from the internet." (But unfortunately I didn't know what I was doing, and I wasted a lot of time and got very little information.) I'm not trying to be funny, just trying to show that the results are the important thing.
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