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#1 20-Jan-2017, 18:32

Bob was unwilling to lend money

I am wondering if my sentence sounds natural. Is it correct to use just "money" in my sentence?

Bob was unwilling to lend money to his brother because he was a compulsive gambler.
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#2 20-Jan-2017, 19:12

Re: Bob was unwilling to lend money

It's okay.

I am not a teacher.
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#3 20-Jan-2017, 19:34

Re: Bob was unwilling to lend money

Although logically it's clear which one of them is the compulsive gambler, the sentence is technically ambiguous. Bob could be the gambler.

Remember - if you don't use correct capitalisation, punctuation and spacing, anything you write will be incorrect.