It is better to do your homework and complete it carelessly than not to complete it.

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Jit833

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1) It is better to do your homework and complete it carelessly than not to complete it at all.
2) The key to my house is not working well because it is a duplicate one.

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1) It is better to do your homework and complete it carelessly than not to complete it at all.
2) The key to my house is not working well because it is a duplicate [STRIKE]one[/STRIKE].

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They're grammatical.
 

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1) It is better to do your homework and complete it carelessly than not to complete it at all.
2) The key to my house is not working well because it is a duplicate one.

Are the sentences correct?

The end of #2 is grammatical but overly wordy. It can be shortened in several ways.

The key to my house is not working well because it is a duplicate key.
My house key is not working well because it is a duplicate key.
My front door key isn't working well because it's a duplicate.

In BrE, the key to the main door of your house is usually referred to as the "front door key".
 

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They're grammatical.

In addition to emsr2d2's response I would add that use of both "to do" and "complete" seems redundant to me. I would prefer:

"It is better to do your homework carelessly than not to do it at all"

But I must add that, as a teacher, I don't necessarily subscribe to that philosophy.
 
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