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Alc24 Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

How would you say this one sentence please?

How would you naturally say this sentence?

- These guests stayed less than those, yet their tax amount was higher than the guests who stayed more nights.

- These guests stayed fewer nights than those, yet the amount of taxe(s) they paid was higher than the guests who stayed more nights.

- These guests stayed fewer nights than those, yet their tax amount was higher than the guests who stayed longer.

- These guests stayed longer than those, yet the amount of taxe(s) they paid was higher than the guests who stayed longer.

Thank you
  

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Try to make them all shorter.
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I don't know which part to get rid of.
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Get rid of the unnecessary, repetitive parts.
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Try something like:

These guests paid more tax than the guests who stayed longer than them.
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Good, free spirit. Now, can you tighten that up, make it more succinct?
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Isn't that succinct enough?
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It can be improved.
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To what please?
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Well, I was going to let free_spirit give it a go, first. If he doesn't get back to us in a while, I'll take a stab at it instead.
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OK MM, thank you
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