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being vs. was | when to use mean and meant?
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yet instead of but Tue Feb 05, 2008 11:59 am  yet instead of but
 

hello , could someone check this sentence please ?

"You are kindly invited to join us watching this legendary yet challenging movie."

many thanks, Alex
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yet instead of but Tue Feb 05, 2008 14:37 pm  yet instead of but
 

Hi Alex

Why is the movie "challenging"?

The use of 'yet' does not seem to be appropriate in your sentence. It would be better to use 'and'. The word 'yet' should be used to connect two adjectives or ideas that would not normally be used together to describe the same thing -- i.e. people would not normally expect the combination of the two adjectives/ideas to be a possible description of the same thing.
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yet instead of but Tue Feb 05, 2008 15:47 pm  yet instead of but
 

Hi Alexzive,

I would suggest that you change
Quote:
to join us watching
to: 'to join us in watching/while/as we watch'

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yet instead of but Tue Feb 05, 2008 17:33 pm  yet instead of but
 

hallo!

with "challenging" I meant the movie is hard to be understood..

Thank you for your suggestions.
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