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Turtle2 Posted 18 years ago
Grammar
two consecutive adverbs
Is it ok to use two adverbs in this sense: "he was a deeply socially aware person"? It doesn't sound quite natural to me but I don't see why it's wrong either.
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You can have two adverbs, but I don't like these two together. He was very socially aware. He showed deep social awareness.
- You can have two adverbs, but I don't like these two together.
- He was very socially aware.
- He showed deep social awareness.
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You can have two adverbs, but I don't like these two together. He was very socially aware. He showed deep social awareness.
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Hi,
Is it ok to use two adverbs in this sense: "he was a deeply socially aware person"? It doesn't sound quite natural to me but I don't see why it's wrong either.
The problem for the reader is to know whether 'deeply'and 'socially' are independent of each other, or whether 'deeply' is meant to modify 'socially' in some way that is rather unclear to me.
In the first case, I
Is it ok to use two adverbs in this sense: "he was a deeply socially aware person"? It doesn't sound quite natural to me but I don't see why it's wrong either.
The problem for the reader is to know whether 'deeply'and 'socially' are independent of each other, or whether 'deeply' is meant to modify 'socially' in some way that is rather unclear to me.
In the first case, I
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Thanks. I'm thinking I could substitute "aware" and just write socially "something" dropping the deeply. However I can't think of a word that transmits that sense of concern and activist nature that the previous sentence did. I don't like "responsible" or "concerned"
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Thanks, I like that very much.
Unrelated question if I may: Is the following sentence ok?
"A, B, C and D all share X and in the case of the latter two, XYZ". Does "in the case of the latter two" make sense? I want to say they all share X but C and D in addition to X, share other properties XYZ.
Unrelated question if I may: Is the following sentence ok?
"A, B, C and D all share X and in the case of the latter two, XYZ". Does "in the case of the latter two" make sense? I want to say they all share X but C and D in addition to X, share other properties XYZ.
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Hi,
Is the following sentence ok?
"A, B, C and D all share X and in the case of the latter two, XYZ". Does "in the case of the latter two" make sense? I want to say they all share X but C and D in addition to X, share other properties XYZ.
It's hard to understand.
I suggest this. It's a lot simpler.
"A, B, C and D all share X. C and D also share Y and Z".
Is the following sentence ok?
"A, B, C and D all share X and in the case of the latter two, XYZ". Does "in the case of the latter two" make sense? I want to say they all share X but C and D in addition to X, share other properties XYZ.
It's hard to understand.
I suggest this. It's a lot simpler.
"A, B, C and D all share X. C and D also share Y and Z".
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