“Your implication lets me better understand the problem.” - does it make sense?
I took part in an English competition a few weeks ago.
In one exercise, there were sentences with missing words (one in each sentence).
One of the sentences was something like this:
Your _ _ _ l _ _ _ _ _ _ _ lets me better understand the problem.
(each dash represents one letter).
Now I know that the best answer would be "explanation", but I filled it in with "implication".
And my question is: is this sentence gramatically correct? And does it make sense?
Your implication lets me better understand the problem.
It didn't have any particular context, it was just one of 10 sentences.
There is a definition of this word at https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/implication:
an occasion when you seem to suggest something without saying it
directly.
It seems to fit there.
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I took part in an English competition a few weeks ago.
In one exercise, there were sentences with missing words (one in each sentence).
One of the sentences was something like this:
Your _ _ _ l _ _ _ _ _ _ _ lets me better understand the problem.
(each dash represents one letter).
Now I know that the best answer would be "explanation", but I filled it in with "implication".
And my question is: is this sentence gramatically correct? And does it make sense?
Your implication lets me better understand the problem.
It didn't have any particular context, it was just one of 10 sentences.
There is a definition of this word at https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/implication:
an occasion when you seem to suggest something without saying it
directly.
It seems to fit there.
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You could construct a context this could make sense, but that’s true of almost any grammatical utterance in English. The fact that it’s possible basically only tells us it’s grammatical, but we knew that already. In practice, there would be few situations where someone would actually say this (esp relative to explanation).
– Dan Bron
58 mins ago
@DanBron, agreed on all points. I think the real answer to the puzzle was "apologizing," no, wait, "emblazoning," no, "exclusivism," or maybe "colloquiums"; no, that's not it; "gallicizing," or "cyclothymia"; yes, that's it!
– Juhasz
16 mins ago
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I took part in an English competition a few weeks ago.
In one exercise, there were sentences with missing words (one in each sentence).
One of the sentences was something like this:
Your _ _ _ l _ _ _ _ _ _ _ lets me better understand the problem.
(each dash represents one letter).
Now I know that the best answer would be "explanation", but I filled it in with "implication".
And my question is: is this sentence gramatically correct? And does it make sense?
Your implication lets me better understand the problem.
It didn't have any particular context, it was just one of 10 sentences.
There is a definition of this word at https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/implication:
an occasion when you seem to suggest something without saying it
directly.
It seems to fit there.
phrases
asked 1 hour ago
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I took part in an English competition a few weeks ago.
In one exercise, there were sentences with missing words (one in each sentence).
One of the sentences was something like this:
Your _ _ _ l _ _ _ _ _ _ _ lets me better understand the problem.
(each dash represents one letter).
Now I know that the best answer would be "explanation", but I filled it in with "implication".
And my question is: is this sentence gramatically correct? And does it make sense?
Your implication lets me better understand the problem.
It didn't have any particular context, it was just one of 10 sentences.
There is a definition of this word at https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/implication:
an occasion when you seem to suggest something without saying it
directly.
It seems to fit there.
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You could construct a context this could make sense, but that’s true of almost any grammatical utterance in English. The fact that it’s possible basically only tells us it’s grammatical, but we knew that already. In practice, there would be few situations where someone would actually say this (esp relative to explanation).
– Dan Bron
58 mins ago
@DanBron, agreed on all points. I think the real answer to the puzzle was "apologizing," no, wait, "emblazoning," no, "exclusivism," or maybe "colloquiums"; no, that's not it; "gallicizing," or "cyclothymia"; yes, that's it!
– Juhasz
16 mins ago
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You could construct a context this could make sense, but that’s true of almost any grammatical utterance in English. The fact that it’s possible basically only tells us it’s grammatical, but we knew that already. In practice, there would be few situations where someone would actually say this (esp relative to explanation).
– Dan Bron
58 mins ago
@DanBron, agreed on all points. I think the real answer to the puzzle was "apologizing," no, wait, "emblazoning," no, "exclusivism," or maybe "colloquiums"; no, that's not it; "gallicizing," or "cyclothymia"; yes, that's it!
– Juhasz
16 mins ago
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You could construct a context this could make sense, but that’s true of almost any grammatical utterance in English. The fact that it’s possible basically only tells us it’s grammatical, but we knew that already. In practice, there would be few situations where someone would actually say this (esp relative to explanation).
– Dan Bron
58 mins ago
You could construct a context this could make sense, but that’s true of almost any grammatical utterance in English. The fact that it’s possible basically only tells us it’s grammatical, but we knew that already. In practice, there would be few situations where someone would actually say this (esp relative to explanation).
– Dan Bron
58 mins ago
@DanBron, agreed on all points. I think the real answer to the puzzle was "apologizing," no, wait, "emblazoning," no, "exclusivism," or maybe "colloquiums"; no, that's not it; "gallicizing," or "cyclothymia"; yes, that's it!
– Juhasz
16 mins ago
@DanBron, agreed on all points. I think the real answer to the puzzle was "apologizing," no, wait, "emblazoning," no, "exclusivism," or maybe "colloquiums"; no, that's not it; "gallicizing," or "cyclothymia"; yes, that's it!
– Juhasz
16 mins ago
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You could construct a context this could make sense, but that’s true of almost any grammatical utterance in English. The fact that it’s possible basically only tells us it’s grammatical, but we knew that already. In practice, there would be few situations where someone would actually say this (esp relative to explanation).
– Dan Bron
58 mins ago
@DanBron, agreed on all points. I think the real answer to the puzzle was "apologizing," no, wait, "emblazoning," no, "exclusivism," or maybe "colloquiums"; no, that's not it; "gallicizing," or "cyclothymia"; yes, that's it!
– Juhasz
16 mins ago