diamondcutter
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- English Teacher
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- Chinese
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I have drawn so much on the work of other linguists that few if any of my ideas, except perhaps any mistaken ones, are original with me.
Source: English Prepositions Explained, revised edition, Seth Lindstromberg
I’d like to know if I could rewrite the sentence like this:
I have drawn so much on the work of other linguists that few are original with me if there are any of my ideas, except perhaps any mistaken ones.
And I wonder if the main idea of the original sentence is this:
I have drawn a lot on the work of other linguists. Few ideas are original with me, and perhaps some of them are mistaken.
Source: English Prepositions Explained, revised edition, Seth Lindstromberg
I’d like to know if I could rewrite the sentence like this:
I have drawn so much on the work of other linguists that few are original with me if there are any of my ideas, except perhaps any mistaken ones.
And I wonder if the main idea of the original sentence is this:
I have drawn a lot on the work of other linguists. Few ideas are original with me, and perhaps some of them are mistaken.
