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English is weird
Tova:
--- Quote from: LeeC on 19 Mar 2019, 11:37 ---Does it bother anyone else when someone says or writes "All of a sudden" instead of "Suddenly" when conveying a story?
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Not really. You are generally better off conveying a sudden event implicitly through your prose than by explicitly saying so via either of the expressions above.
JoeCovenant:
--- Quote from: LeeC on 19 Mar 2019, 11:37 ---Does it bother anyone else when someone says or writes "All of a sudden" instead of "Suddenly" when conveying a story?
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If it's being used as dialogue, then nit a problem.
But if part of the prose/narration, then editors HATE that word...
oddtail:
I'm confused. I was under the impression that "all of a sudden" is correct. What's wrong with the expression?
pwhodges:
Agreed - it's a perfectly natural idiom to me, expressing more surprise and drama than a simple suddenly.
Tova:
Grammatically, it's perfectly fine.
Then there's "all of the sudden." TIL.
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