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zvonka.rink
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Dear colleagues, I struggle with two sentences- I �m not sure if they are right: -The story made literary history as the first nonfiction best-seller FROM an African-American woman. Is the preposition FROM OK? -They are sure TO HAVE WORKED hard on the project. I expected the sentence: They must have worked hard on the project. I would really appreciate your help. Thank you. |
22 Jan 2018
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cunliffe
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From is correct. By would also be fine. They are sure to have worked hard/they must have worked hard.... both fine, similar meaning. You are surmising/assuming that they worked hard. There is a difference in nuance: they are sure to have worked hard, it �s an assumption about them, but they second one, you are looking at the finished result; it �s excellent, so they must have worked hard at/on it. So the first one is an assumption, but the second one is a deduction.
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