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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
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Which sentence sounds better?
Hello. I'm just looking for the better sounding for these equivalent sentence:
"Sometimes one likes to ask himself questions in which only his own answer is suitable."
"Sometimes it's pleasant to ask oneself questions in which only one's own answer is suitable."
If you would help me more, I think that perhaps a third equivalent sentence could sound better than that two.
Thank you in advance.
"Sometimes one likes to ask himself questions in which only his own answer is suitable."
"Sometimes it's pleasant to ask oneself questions in which only one's own answer is suitable."
If you would help me more, I think that perhaps a third equivalent sentence could sound better than that two.
Thank you in advance.
Top answer
My effort: Sometimes we like to ask questions that only we ourselves can answer suitably.
- My effort: Sometimes we like to ask questions that only we ourselves can answer suitably.
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My effort:
Sometimes we like to ask questions that only we ourselves can answer suitably.
My effort:
Sometimes we like to ask questions that only we ourselves can answer suitably.
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Thank you very much for the reply, but I would prefer to use an impersonal subject and to make clear that people ask only to themselves, and never to another person. However there's not any poetic licence to justify "questions in which" instead of the correct "questions to which".
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