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Expression: "Forgive and forget"



 
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Expression: "Forgive and forget" #1 (permalink) Sun Oct 01, 2006 16:46 pm   Expression: "Forgive and forget"
 

Hi

You may have heard the expression forgive and forget! If I deviate a bit from it changing the verbs into adjectives, what should I use? See below, please!

1- She has been very forgiving and---------- all these years. (forgetting sounds ugly here)

Could you please help?

I would be grateful!

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Expression: "Forgive and forget" #2 (permalink) Sun Oct 01, 2006 17:57 pm   Expression: "Forgive and forget"
 

Hi Tom

You've changed forgive and forget into adjectives and I agree: It does sound odd that way.

What about using the present perfect continuous instead, for example?

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Forgive #3 (permalink) Sun Oct 01, 2006 19:01 pm   Forgive
 

Hi Tom,

Perhaps you could say very forgiving and willing to forget.

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Expression: "Forgive and forget" #4 (permalink) Sun Oct 01, 2006 20:22 pm   Expression: "Forgive and forget"
 

Thanks, Alan and Amy!

Amy wrote:
What about using the present perfect continuous instead, for example?


Tom wrote:
1- She has been very forgiving and---------- all these years. (forgetting sounds ugly here)


Interestingly enough, Amy, when I tried to turn my sentence into present perfect continuous, it turned out to be the same! :shock: :lol:

Tom

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