Best use of words: takes OR makes

[Shane]

Hi,

What are the best words for this sentence?

She (takes OR makes) (the OR a ) (center OR middle )parting.

I would like to know all possibilities, please.

Shane

[Yankee]

Hi Shane

Are you talking about parting hair?

If so, I would just say "She parts her hair in the middle."

If not, please give us more detail.

Amy
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[Shane]

Yes Amy
It is about hair.
What is better TAKE or MAKE?

Waiting

[Yankee]

Hi Shane

Your question is hard to answer because the word "parting" is not normally used this way (hair). In connection with hair, I would use the word "part" --- either as a noun or a verb.

[Alan]

Hi Shane,

I must support Amy on this. Make and take don't usually go with parting unless of course you're Moses trying to cut across the Red Sea in a hurry.

Alan
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[Shane]

Dear Amy and Alan

A lot of thanks for making the idea so clear.

I think I could also say: "part in the right" and "part in the left" and "she makes no part in her hair".

Am I correct?

Again thanks

[Alan]

Hi Shane,

You asked:

[Yankee]

Hi Alan

Now you've got me curious. I myself would never use "parting" as a noun to talk about hair. For me that "line" in your hair is simply a "part".

Are you saying that in the UK you can say "She has a parting in her hair" ? (I'd always say "part" --> US English).

Hi Shane

As to the right/left question, I think "She parts her hair on the left (side)" would also be OK.

If there is no part(ing) I would say:

She doesn't part her hair.
-- OR --
She never parts her hair.
-- OR --
She doesn't have a part in her hair. (US English!)

Bye for now.... parting is such sweet sorrow....

Amy
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[Alan]

Hi Amy,

To me she has a part in her hair sounds quite amusing because it suggests that she has something in her hair like for example a spare part. In the hair area, if I may call it that, is the brain and if someone is not all there, you say they've got a part missing. Gets confusing or what?

Alan
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[Yankee]

Hi Alan

That might be a reason why my suggestions tended to use "part" as a verb.

But, seriously, I'd never heard it called "a parting" before. As you can see above, I associate parting with a departure and also Willy Shakespeare... I also thought of a bald guy parting with his hair. (Now THAT could be a very large parting... )

Amy
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