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Expression: 'Three months bills are due on me.'



 
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Expression: 'Three months bills are due on me.' Thu Mar 22, 2007 13:55 pm  Expression: 'Three months bills are due on me.'
 

Hi

Could you please tell me if you find the following sentences the same?

1- I am three months behind my bills.
2- Three months bills are due on me.


Regards

Tom

PS: Is my use of “the same” correct and natural here?
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Expression: 'Three months bills are due on me.' Thu Mar 22, 2007 14:12 pm  Expression: 'Three months bills are due on me.'
 

Hi Tom

I just plain don't like your second sentence.

I'd add a preposition to your first sentence:

I am three months behind on my bills.

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Expression: 'Three months bills are due on me.' Thu Mar 22, 2007 17:09 pm  Expression: 'Three months bills are due on me.'
 

I'd rewrite the second sentence like this:

Three months' bills are due.

- "on me" is unnecessary
- "months'" needs to be possessive -- the bills of three months = three months' bills
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