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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Which way is the sentence writed?

Which is correct?

Being late was worth 100 dollars.

100 dollars was worth being late.
  

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Which way is the sentence written? They both seem a bit awkward. It was worth being late to make a hundred dollars.

  • Which way is the sentence written?
  • They both seem a bit awkward.
  • It was worth being late to make a hundred dollars.
  • ) ??
  • It was worth being late for a hundred dollars!
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Which way is the sentence written?

They both seem a bit awkward.

It was worth being late to make a hundred dollars.

(So being late was bad but making the hundred was good.) ??

It was worth being late for a hundred dollars!
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If you replace 100 dollars with "that"

which would be correct?

That's worth being late.

Being late is worth that.
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AnonymousThat's worth being late.
Being late is worth that.
If I understand your meaning, you want the first one.
Some people would say, "That's worth being late for," or "It was worth being late for that."

Your second example would mean that "being late" was the prized thing which you gained by doing "that."
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Hi

Is it possible to tell me this using the 2 structures above

"That's worth being late for," or "It was worth being late for that."

It's not worth waiting 10 minutes to take the subway one stop. You might as well walk.

One stop isn't worth having to wait 10 minutes for the subway for. You might as well walk.

Having to wait 1
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Hi Avangi,

Is possible you tell me the correct phrasing in this:

It's not worth waiting 10 minutes to take the subway one stop. You might as well walk.

One stop isn't worth having to wait 10 minutes for the subway for. You might as well walk.

Having to wait 10 minutes is worth one stop.

It's not worth risking getting caught for just 100 do
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This doesn't make any practical math sense. A fast walker may be able to make a mile in 15 minutes which is a better time than most people able to achieve. A subway stop, even gauging it with a straight line, is at least 2 miles in most metropolises.That's 30 minutes of fast walking. I am willing to wager the train fare for one stop on 90% of the people willing to wait for 10 minutes rather than w
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Hi Avangi,

Happy Christmas,

People seems to think some structure are correct when they are not. May I take a few minutes of your time to ask how to say the below I tried using the above phrasing.

It's not worth waiting 10 minutes to take the subway one stop. You might as well walk.

One stop isn't worth having to wait 10 minutes for the subway for.
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Hi Avangi, please can you take look at this?
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Hi, Anon.

There's no question that some of these expressions are used by native speakers.

Of course they usually occur within some kind of context which helps to make the meanings clear.

Whenever you post phrases like this without context, you risk being accused of posting nonsense.

When critics claim they make no sense, what they often mean is that they
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Hi Avangi, I have worked so hard on this, trying to get everything down. Could you take a look, hopefully I will be correct.
I'll split it up to make it easier
I'm going to try to give you context

Is breaking your leg worth making $2000 over?

Very stupid context :Your friend bets you $2

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