Singing valley Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

Is it right to say...?

We came to a decision together, deciding to gather all students in the class.

  

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singing valley Is it right ... We came to a decision together , deciding to gather all students in the class. It's grammatically correct, but the repetition of related words ( decision, deciding ) is considered poor style.

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singing valleyIs it right ... ?

We came to a decision together, deciding to gather all students in the class.

It's grammatically correct, but the repetition of related words (decision, deciding) is considered poor style. A native speaker would more likely write this:

Gathering all the students into one classroom, we came to a d