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#1 26-Oct-2012, 21:09Is this sentence correct?
Is this sentence correct? "I'm too scared to take girl's hand"
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#2 26-Oct-2012, 21:12Re: Is this sentence correct?
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#3 26-Oct-2012, 21:13Re: Is this sentence correct?
Nothing, I just wanted to know that I'm right
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#4 26-Oct-2012, 21:17Re: Is this sentence correct?
There is nothing wrong with your (corrected) sentence, but I think we are more likely to say, "... to hold a girl's hand' or '... to take a girl by the hand'.
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#5 26-Oct-2012, 21:48Re: Is this sentence correct?
Thank you for help I appreciate your help, but I prefer my sentence, because yours looks to me just a little bit strange =)
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#6 26-Oct-2012, 22:10Re: Is this sentence correct?
Preferring your sentence because you can show that it is more natural or more grammatically correct would be fine, but to prefer your sentence to that of a native English speaker just because the native speaker's version "looks just a little bit strange" to you is not a good way to improve your English!
Remember - if you don't use correct capitalisation, punctuation and spacing, anything you write will be incorrect.
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#7 27-Oct-2012, 02:18Re: Is this sentence correct?
If you're going to ignore our advice you might as well not bother asking for it.
A better title would have been I'm too scared to take a girl's hand.
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