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"the chances are he'll get tired of the game not long after" klingt das natürlich?
"the chances are he'll get tired of the game not long after" klingt das natürlich?
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28 Apr 2017
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- Englisch (US)
Etwas unnatürlich
@fluffyhusky "Not long after" refers to a specific time ("not long after he buys it"). I think it's because the sentence doesn't have a point in time referred to in it that it sounds strange.
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- Englisch (US)
Etwas unnatürlich
"Chances are, he'll get tired of the game before too long." "Not long after" is grammatically fine, but it sounds a little off here.
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- Koreanisch
@NordicRest thank you!
why is it off here?
why is it off here?
- Englisch (US)
Etwas unnatürlich
@fluffyhusky "Not long after" refers to a specific time ("not long after he buys it"). I think it's because the sentence doesn't have a point in time referred to in it that it sounds strange.
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