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Does this sound natural?
“I don’t use this word. The people around me don’t either.”
Does this sound natural?
“I don’t use this word. The people around me don’t either.”
“I don’t use this word. The people around me don’t either.”
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@branduhn it’s not unnatural, but I think it would sound better if you said this, “I don’t use this word, and no one I know does either”
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@branduhn it’s not unnatural, but I think it would sound better if you said this, “I don’t use this word, and no one I know does either”
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@branduhn yes the grammar was correct. Just sounds a bit robotic
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@pomjoep Do you think my original sentence sounds more natural with or without “the”?
I don’t use this word. *The* people around me don’t either.
I don’t use this word. *The* people around me don’t either.
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@branduhn sorry I said that wrong, no “the” sounds better than having a “the”
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