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The use of "oddly sudden"



 
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The use of "oddly sudden" Sat Feb 24, 2007 11:16 am  The use of "oddly sudden"		  
Hi

Please see below:

This discussion was held somewhere else:

Student wrote:
Are these sentences acceptable?

1. On being deprived of parental affection, children easily turn into criminals.
2. Deprived of parental affection, children easily turn into criminals.

Mister Micawber wrote:
Yes. I much prefer #2; number 1 makes the transformation seem oddly sudden.

My questions are:

1- Are "very much prefer" and "much prefer" same?
2- What is "oddly sudden?"

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The use of "oddly sudden" Sun Feb 25, 2007 14:11 pm  The use of "oddly sudden"		  
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1-- Very much prefer indicates a stronger preference than much prefer.

2-- oddly sudden = unusually quick; strangely precipitous
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The use of "oddly sudden" Sun Feb 25, 2007 19:34 pm  The use of "oddly sudden"		  
Hi Tom

Just an additional observation:
Quote:
"On being deprived of parental affection.."

Using the word 'on' makes the sentence sound as though it means something like this:
Even if children have had plenty of parental affection in the past, the moment they are deprived of this affection, the children can easily become criminals.
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