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Anonymous Posted 8 years ago
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What is wrong with this sentence?

They spent the day arguing rather than working together to find a compromise.

  

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anonymous : What is wrong with this sentence? They spent the day arguing rather than working together to find a compromise. I see no real error.

— Mister Micawber

  • anonymous : What is wrong with this sentence?
  • They spent the day arguing rather than working together to find a compromise.
  • I see no real error.
  • 'Reach' instead of 'find' is a more usual collocation with 'compromise'; 'instead of' could be substituted for 'rather than'.
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anonymous: What is wrong with this sentence? They spent the day arguing rather than working together to find a compromise.

I see no real error. 'Reach' instead of 'find' is a more usual collocation with 'compromise'; 'instead of' could be substituted for 'rather than'.

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