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    peter123 is offline Senior Member
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    Hi there,
    Please help with the following sentence.

    I find learning grammar useful. OR I find learning grammar is useful.

    Thanks
    pete

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    Default Re: find

    Your first sentence as a simple sentence is an appropriate choice as a simple sentence or clause can have only one main verb (I.e., either ‘find’ or ‘is’). If you must, you could turn it into a complex sentence thus ‘I find that learning grammar is useful.’

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