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Old 28-Jun-2006, 19:40
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Hello!. How is it going?


E.X. I hope you all (will/have to) pay the same price,
THE SAME PRICE (that) they pay (=do/have to)


My questions:



1.- I repeated, as you can see, the definite article+adjective+noun "the same price". I did it
cause I want to emphasize. We can do it in Spanish after a comma. Is that
grammatically correct in English?

2.- I hesitate about if I should use a simple future or that "have to".
Are both of them correct?

3.- Can I omit that "that" in the sentence?

4.- Can I replace the last "pay" for "do" or should I use "have to"
, that is to say, "the same price that they have to"?
I do it for not repeating "pay" again. By the way, If I
use "pay" again, would it be right? I donŽt know if English people tend to use the auxiliar do, have...


I think my sentence should be like this:

I hope you all have to pay the same price,
the same price they pay.

But, I hesitate.

Thank you very much!
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Old 29-Jun-2006, 04:08
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Default Re: Would you mind correcting this sentence, please?

1 You can
2 Both are fine
3 Yes
4 Yes, though you can repeat pay; after all, you are trying to emphasise it.
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Old 29-Jun-2006, 15:02
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Quote:
Originally Posted by tdol
1 You can
2 Both are fine
3 Yes
4 Yes, though you can repeat pay; after all, you are trying to emphasise it.

Hello, Tdol, how are you? Thanks a lot for all your replies!

Well, I was thinking yesterday about my sentence. I thought
of the "HIGH and LOW prices" of the goods in a supermarket. Can I use the first adjective with the fixed expresion "pay the price" in my sentence?
It would be like this:


E.X. I hope youŽll all pay the price as well,
the high price they pay.

2.- IŽve used the adverb "as well" as well in my sentence . Is that fine? I know
I donŽt need it, but my question about it is:

Am I really padding
my sentence out for the sake of it? I mean,
Is superfluous using that adverb here?


Thanks again and again!
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Old 30-Jun-2006, 06:11
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Pay the price = be punished for what you've done, so i wouldn't use it. There's no need for 'as well' if you keep same, shich works better because of the possibility of confusing 'pay the price'.
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