Dec 5, 2007 09:25
16 yrs ago
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English term

some more, some less

English Bus/Financial General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters
Please let me know if the meaning of the sentence below is clear. Thank you!
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It is generally known that all people make mistakes, some more, some less. Still, all people do make them.
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Responses

+9
5 mins
Selected

Yeas, it's clear.

But if you want to make it clearer, you could say:
...all people make mistakes; some make more, some make less.
Peer comment(s):

agree orientalhorizon : absolutely right!
4 mins
Thank you.
agree Patricia Townshend (X)
8 mins
Thank you.
agree Shirley Lao
14 mins
Thank you.
agree Noni Gilbert Riley : Any comments on the fewer front?!
33 mins
Thank you.// Fewer? Possible, but "more" and "less" are a standard pair, so I prefer "less".
agree Mehmet Hascan
2 hrs
Thank you.
agree malligajm : less sounds better
4 hrs
Thank you.
agree Cristina Santos
8 hrs
Thank you.
agree V_Nedkov
10 hrs
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agree Elena Aleksandrova
1 day 4 hrs
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+10
17 mins

some more than others

Sounds fine, you could also say 'some more than others'.
Peer comment(s):

agree Nesrin
2 mins
agree Sinead --
17 mins
agree cmwilliams (X) : this sounds more natural to me
19 mins
agree Mehmet Hascan : sounds good to me.
2 hrs
agree vixen : Agree with cmwilliams
2 hrs
agree malligajm : this is more difficult to understand than jack's version. but this is also ok
3 hrs
agree NancyLynn
4 hrs
agree Cristina Santos
8 hrs
agree Alfa Trans (X)
8 hrs
agree Arleene McFarlane
9 hrs
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