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'What happened to him is worthyof a best-seller thriller'
1...Your sentence has no period.
2...It should be 'best-selling thriller'.
3...'a best-selling thriller' is a book; a person can not be worthy of a book. You can say, 'What happened to him is worthy of a best-selling author.'
The Following User Says Thank You to 2006 For This Useful Post:
2006, you don't think that works?
The events that happened to him in the past (two hour) (seven days) (year) are what you would expect to read in a good book.
That makes sense to me - What happened to him is worth (being written about) in a thrilling novel.
The Following User Says Thank You to Barb_D For This Useful Post:
2006, you don't think that works?
The events that happened to him in the past (two hour) (seven days) (year) are what you would expect to read in a good book.
That makes sense to me - What happened to him is worth (being written about) in a thrilling novel.
Yes, now that you mentioned it, I can see it used that way also.
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