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| Honest Diglot Groupie United States Joined 5317 days ago 89 posts - 92 votes  Speaks: Arabic (Gulf)*, English | Message 1 of 11 22 June 2010 at 8:29am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm having difficulty in placing "at the same time" in this sentence..
As the book successfully points out........., it fails at the same time to... or As the book successfully points out........, it, at the same time, fails to... or As the book successfully points out........, at the same time it fails to... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| cmj Octoglot Groupie Switzerland Joined 5337 days ago 58 posts - 191 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Ancient Greek, French, Arabic (classical), Latin, Italian | Message 2 of 11 22 June 2010 at 9:51am | IP Logged | ||
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I'd go with the third option here. The other two are quite awkward. Generally when you have a group of words like "it fails to" which are closely (subject, verb and its preposition), you want to avoid inserting anything between them. A possible exception is when you are inserting a parenthetical aside to further describe the subject, e.g. "The man, who was dressed in blue, entered the room".
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| justberta Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5584 days ago 140 posts - 170 votes Speaks: English, Norwegian* Studies: Indonesian, German, Spanish, Russian | Message 3 of 11 22 June 2010 at 11:30am | IP Logged | ||
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Number three
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| davidwelsh Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5528 days ago 141 posts - 307 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, Norwegian, Esperanto, Swedish, Danish, French Studies: Polish, Sanskrit, Tibetan, Pali, Mandarin | Message 4 of 11 22 June 2010 at 1:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yes, number three. I might replace "as" with "though" - depending on the context of the sentence...
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| Honest Diglot Groupie United States Joined 5317 days ago 89 posts - 92 votes Speaks: Arabic (Gulf)*, English | Message 5 of 11 22 June 2010 at 2:12pm | IP Logged | ||
Thank you, all! I don't see any difference between "as" and "though" I thought they were synonyms! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Declan1991 Tetraglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6438 days ago 233 posts - 359 votes Speaks: English*, German, Irish, French | Message 6 of 11 22 June 2010 at 6:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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I would say three, but that as has to be changed to although.
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| tracker465 Senior Member United States Joined 5351 days ago 355 posts - 496 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 7 of 11 22 June 2010 at 7:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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I would choose three, but two is alright as well. Number one just seems strange to me.
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| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5590 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 8 of 11 23 June 2010 at 4:34am | IP Logged | ||
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number three gets my vote also. It is the most correct.
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