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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Which sentence is correct/betterm

"Due to pressure, they do things their minds were not wired to do."

"Due to pressure, they do things their minds were not cut out for."
  

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''Due to pressure, they do things their minds were not wired to do'' is correct. However you can also say, ''Due to pressure, they cut out for doing things that their minds were not wired to do''

  • ''Due to pressure, they do things their minds were not wired to do'' is correct.
  • However you can also say, ''Due to pressure, they cut out for doing things that their minds were not wired to do''
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''Due to pressure, they do things their minds were not wired to do'' is correct. However you can also say, ''Due to pressure, they cut out for doing things that their minds were not wired to do''
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linguist27'Due to pressure, they cut out for doing things that their minds were not wired to do''
The sentence is not grammatical. This one is:
Due to pressure, they cut out doing things that their minds were not wired to do.
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linguist27To make it grammatically correct you can say: Due to pressure, they cut out to do things that their minds were not wired to do
No you can't say that if you want to be grammatically correct..
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linguist27 they cut out to do things
That is nor natural.
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Well, 'cut out for something' is an idiom so when you use idioms you just need to use the right context which accounts for its meaning. Other than that, idioms are fundamentally informal and should be avoided in formal writing. In this case there are just two options - one of which is making it grammatically correct or making it sound more natural. In either way, you just cannot change the context
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linguist27Hope this helps.
It doesn't help at all.

It was you who interjected the grammatically incorrect, unnatural sentence.

There was nothing wrong with either of the two sentences in the original posting.
Both used rather informal language.
Both were grammatical.

If you are going to answer posters' questions, please st

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