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Is it natural to say "build a sentence" ?
Is it natural to say "build a sentence" ?
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@juanpadillameza
It’s not something I hear a lot of people say, but it makes sense. I would expect a native speaker to say – construct a sentence. Put a sentence together.
We associate the word – build – too much with literal building, architecture. We have a couple of metaphorical uses for it, but not many.
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It’s not something I hear a lot of people say, but it makes sense. I would expect a native speaker to say – construct a sentence. Put a sentence together.
We associate the word – build – too much with literal building, architecture. We have a couple of metaphorical uses for it, but not many.
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For instance, we say that we build relationships and friendships. It’s very normal to say that.
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