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Linda PinkCellar Posted 7 years ago
Grammar

Using "would" twice in a sentence

Hey,

I was wondering if using "would" in the following manner is considered grammatically correct:

"I would prefer boiling water on my hands before I would allow you to to this."

Thanks.

  

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" Thanks. The grammar is OK, but the sentence is not idiomatic. We would say something more like this: I would put my hands in boiling water before I would allow you to do this.

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Linda PinkCellar

Hey,

I was wondering if using "would" in the following manner is considered grammatically correct:

"I would prefer boiling water on my hands before I would allow you to to this."

Thanks.

The grammar is OK, but the sentence is not idiomatic. We would say something more like this:

I would put my hands in boil

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