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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

We seldom dispute/have a dispute

Just a quick question - is it okay to say "we seldom dispute" or do one have to say "we seldom have a dispute" alternatively "we seldom dispute about ..."?? What I want to say is that we very rarely argue about anything, but it is important to use the word dispute in its shortest form.
  

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I think the word you're looking for is "disagree". I think that 'dispute' is more often used in the sense of one person having doubts about something.

— Philip

  • I think the word you're looking for is "disagree".
  • I think that 'dispute' is more often used in the sense of one person having doubts about something.
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I think the word you're looking for is "disagree". I think that 'dispute' is more often used in the sense of one person having doubts about something.
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i see.. never mind the verb - is it okay, i.e. does it look weird, if I write "we seldom dispute."? I would very much like to write it like that since its a poem im writing and it would be good if it rhymed!
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Yes, you can, but there is much more at stake than the rhyme. Does it fit into the tone and register of the poem? 'We seldom dispute' sounds like the lament of two lawyers.
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