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Anonymous Posted 7 years ago
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We would be interested
I came across this on an email:
We would be very interested to know whether....
Obviously the writer was not a native English speaker. It sounds incorrect to me; I would use this construction only in conditionals.
Am I right?
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anonymous Obviously the writer was not a native English speaker. Nah. You see that all the time.
- anonymous Obviously the writer was not a native English speaker.
- Nah.
- You see that all the time.
- I don't like it, either, but only because "interested to know" is clunky.
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anonymousObviously the writer was not a native English speaker.
Nah. You see that all the time. I don't like it, either, but only because "interested to know" is clunky.
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anonymousIt sounds incorrect to me
No. It's OK, though an alternate form has 'interested in knowing whether ...'.
As for 'would be very interested', I consider that a variant of the idiom 'would like'. It's a softer way of saying 'want'.
CJ
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