Augustine06
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Dear Teachers,
Could you please clarify if there are any circumstances when the following sentence could be considered grammatical and why (or why not)?
"If only a disagreement makes you be quit of me, we don't belong together".
This is how the person who wrote this sentence (as a translation from Russian) explains why he thinks it's absolutelly correct: (quote) "it makes you be quit of me" in this translation means "it makes you be in a better state for having removed my (troublesome or unwanted) person". In other words, what he was trying to say by this phrase was something like "if even after a tiny disagreement you stop treating me like your friend and start distancing yourself from me then we don't belong together". To me the whole "makes you be quit of me" thing looks very wrong but as I'm not a linguist I simply can't explain why I find it grammatically incorrect. Could you please help me on this one?
Thanks a lot in advance
Could you please clarify if there are any circumstances when the following sentence could be considered grammatical and why (or why not)?
"If only a disagreement makes you be quit of me, we don't belong together".
This is how the person who wrote this sentence (as a translation from Russian) explains why he thinks it's absolutelly correct: (quote) "it makes you be quit of me" in this translation means "it makes you be in a better state for having removed my (troublesome or unwanted) person". In other words, what he was trying to say by this phrase was something like "if even after a tiny disagreement you stop treating me like your friend and start distancing yourself from me then we don't belong together". To me the whole "makes you be quit of me" thing looks very wrong but as I'm not a linguist I simply can't explain why I find it grammatically incorrect. Could you please help me on this one?
Thanks a lot in advance
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