Courteous comment.

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david11

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Is it common to use courteous with comment?
 

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I agree; it's possible, but I can't say that it's particularly common.
 

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Is it common to use courteous with comment?


Why don't you give us an example of a sentence with the two words in and we'll tell you whether it sounds natural. I already agree with the others that it's probably not terribly common but to be honest, using of the word "courteous" isn't very common these days.
 

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Well that's just common courtesy.

"Common courtesy" is admittedly a fairly common phrase. I'm still not sure about using "comment" with "courteous" though.
 
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... to be honest, using of the word "courteous" isn't very common these days.

I find that a great shame, but have to agree that most younger people would think it sounded archaic.
 

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Why don't you give us an example of a sentence with the two words in and we'll tell you whether it sounds natural.

How about this?

Thank you for your courteous comment.
 

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Your suggestion seems ok to me. "He responded with a courteous comment although he disagreed in principle."
 
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