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Taka Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
What
He held what breath he had and listened.
If "had" was replaced with "all the" as below, would it still sound OK and make the same sense?
He held all the breath he had and listened.
If "had" was replaced with "all the" as below, would it still sound OK and make the same sense?
He held all the breath he had and listened.
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Taka If "had" was replaced with "all the" as below, would it still sound OK and make the same sense? It would make sense but not be the native utterance.
- Taka If "had" was replaced with "all the" as below, would it still sound OK and make the same sense?
- It would make sense but not be the native utterance.
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TakaIf "had" was replaced with "all the" as below, would it still sound OK and make the same sense?It would make sense but not be the native utterance.
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Purely from a grammatical point of view, that "what" is the same kind as this one below, right, MM?
I gave him what money I had.
I gave him what money I had.
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Yes, that is true. In that case, both ways would be natural.
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He held what breath he had and listened.
He held all the breath he had and listened.
To my mind, #1 implies more that he didn't have a lot of breath.
He held all the breath he had and listened.
To my mind, #1 implies more that he didn't have a lot of breath.
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