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Akdom Posted 17 years ago
1. Is the "it" legal in there? Is that a grammatical mistake? If it were up to me, I would just eliminate that "it."
2. If it is grammatical correct, would you explain "it" to me? Why stick a pronoun in there?
Grammar
Unneccessary pronoun IT ?
It affords you the opportunity to learn how to trade stocks, make mistakes and it not cost you any real money.
1. Is the "it" legal in there? Is that a grammatical mistake? If it were up to me, I would just eliminate that "it."
2. If it is grammatical correct, would you explain "it" to me? Why stick a pronoun in there?
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akdom It affords you the opportunity to learn how to trade stocks , make mistakes and it does not (doesn't) cost you any real money . - 'to learn how to make mistakes' is ludicrous, I suppose it should be 'to learn how to avoid mistakes' Greetings, Akdom, both occurrences of it are justified in the sentence. It is true that, in the second case, it can be omitted (this is called ellipsis ): It affords you the opportunity to learn how to trade stocks , make mistakes and doesn't cost you any real money .
- akdom It affords you the opportunity to learn how to trade stocks , make mistakes and it does not (doesn't) cost you any real money .
- - 'to learn how to make mistakes' is ludicrous, I suppose it should be 'to learn how to avoid mistakes' Greetings, Akdom, both occurrences of it are justified in the sentence.
- It is true that, in the second case, it can be omitted (this is called ellipsis ): It affords you the opportunity to learn how to trade stocks , make mistakes and doesn't cost you any real money .
- Basically, the sentence expresses two ideas: It affords you the opportunity to learn how to trade stocks , make mistakes.
- + It doesn't cost you any real money .
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akdomIt affords you the opportunity to learn how to trade stocks, make mistakes and it does not (doesn't) cost you any
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Hi guys,
It affords you the opportunity to learn how to trade stocks, make mistakes and it not cost you any real money.
If the opportunity is to learn two things, then to try to retain your words I would write the sentence like this.
(As noted by Gleb, 'avoid' sounds better that 'make'.)
It affords you the opportunity to learn how to tr
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