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Mehdi kord Posted 5 years ago
Grammar

What they lack in talent, they make up for in conviction

Q: I have difficulty grasping the grammar used in this sentence.

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--What they lack in talent, they make up for in conviction.

  

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mehdi kord --What they lack in talent, they make up for in conviction. You can call it a formula. " They lack talent, and they have more conviction than usual.

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  • mehdi kord --What they lack in talent, they make up for in conviction.
  • You can call it a formula.
  • " They lack talent, and they have more conviction than usual.
  • The degree to which they lack talent can be equated in some way with the surplus of conviction they possess, and this surplus of conviction compensates for their lack of talent.
  • The wording is off.
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mehdi kord--What they lack in talent, they make up for in conviction.

You can call it a formula. In Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Tom Stoppard wrote "We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.” Your sentence is inverted, of course, from "They make up for in conviction what they lack in talent." They la

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mehdi kordthe grammar used in this sentence

There are two parts to this construction. 'lack in' and 'make up in'.

Some kind of disadvantage is mentioned after 'lack in', and some kind of advantage is mentioned after 'make up in'.

Or, there is not enough of something mentioned after 'lack in', and there is more than enough of something mention

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