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| 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" 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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| 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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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 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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| 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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