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Ahava_yin Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

Tricky

___ at in his way, the situation doesn't seem so desperate.

A. Looking B. Looked

Which one would you prefer? What do you usually say to express the meaning? Thank you!
  

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Hi Tricky Did you mean to write 'his' or did you intend to write 'this'? Looked at (in) t his way, the situation doesn't seem so desperate. If you look at the situation this way, it doesn't seem so desperate.

— Yankee

  • Hi Tricky Did you mean to write 'his' or did you intend to write 'this'?
  • Looked at (in) t his way, the situation doesn't seem so desperate.
  • If you look at the situation this way, it doesn't seem so desperate.
  • Looked at his way, the situation doesn't seem so desperate.
  • If you look at the situation his way, it doesn't seem so desperate.
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Hi Tricky

Did you mean to write 'his' or did you intend to write 'this'?

Looked at (in) this way, the situation doesn't seem so desperate.
If you look at the situation this way, it doesn't seem so desperate.

Looked at his way, the situation doesn't seem so desperate.
If you look at the situation his way, it doesn't seem so desperate.
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Hi Ahava_yin,

With at in his way, only "looked" works. It describes the situation.

Looking at it his way, the situation ... sets up an ungrammatical construction: the situaton is not the the thing that is looking.

A way around that is to say "If you look at it his way..." or "Looking at it his way, I don't find the situation to be so deperate" or "
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