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Message board > We shouldn ´t say "I have a doubt"
We shouldn ´t say "I have a doubt"
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memthefirst
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In Oxford Collocations dictionary 2002 on page 237 it says VERB+DOUBT =........,have
I �m still confused :(
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29 Mar 2011
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lizsantiago
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mem... basically if what you want to say is that you want to ask then you say i have a question but if what you are trying to say or express is that you are not sure about something you can say i have a doubt about ......whatever . in other words it is not right to use i have a doubt for i have a question
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29 Mar 2011
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almaz
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No need to be confused, memthefirst. Most of the posters have made it quite clear: if you use �doubt � with �have �, you use it as follows:
I have a doubt about.... I have some doubts about.... I have my doubts.... etc....
...and, as most have suggested, it implies uncertainty; it is definitely not the same as �I have a question � although it might be considered as such depending on the context.
PS In Scotland a cigarette-end is known as a �dowt � (pronounced like �doubt �). So, when the wee boy was urged by his Sunday School teacher to �bring his doubts to Jesus �, he trolled round every pub in the area and ended up dumping a barrowload of fag-ends on the steps of his local kirk : ) |
29 Mar 2011
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