Hello team,
I am not very sure which one is correct in the following cases. Can anyone help me out?
1. The risk of me getting an accident is high.
2. The risk that I get an accident is high.
3. The risk of an accident happening to me is high.
Question: Are 1 & 2 &3 grammatically correct? Are they used interchangeably in speaking?
3. If you mess up, I guarantee it won't end up with you keeping all your teeth.
4. If you mess up, I guarantee it won't end up with the fact that you will keep all your teeth.
Question: Are 3 & 4 grammatically correct? Are they used interchangeably in speaking?
Thank you.
Best wishes,
Rithy
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Re: Participle clause
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Please take a look through the forum guidelines before posting. This folder is only for general strategy questions, not content or specific test problems. Check out the content / problem folders and post in the relevant folder depending upon the source of the problem you want to post—for example, this post would go in the General Verbal folder.
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First, this one is missing a word; it needs to say "The risk of me getting IN an accident is high."
Second, this construction is common in casual speech but it wouldn't be correct for the GMAT. You'd need to say something like "The risk that I get into an accident is high."
Oh look—just like you wrote here.
(Except there's still that one word missing—get INTO an accident.)
You could also say something like this: My risk of getting into an accident is high.
This is called a passive construction. Passive constructions are valid but can sometimes sound wordy or awkward. If you want the emphasis to be on the person at risk of the accident (ie, you!), then you'd use an active contstruction as in #2. If you want the emphasis to be on the risk, then you would use a passive construction like this one.
And you might even go further and remove the person entirely: In these circumstances, the risk of an accident occurring is quite high.
The classic construction is "I guarantee it won't end well." You can change "well" to any detail you want: I guarantee it won't end with you keeping all of your teeth. I guarantee it won't end on a good note. (You don't need the word "up"—though lots of people would use that in casual speech.)
4. If you mess up, I guarantee it won't end up with the fact that you will keep all your teeth.
You wouldn't use "the fact that" in this particular sentence because you are trying to say that the person will *not* end up keeping all of their teeth. But the placement of "the fact that" in this example indicates that the person *will* keep all of their teeth, so the meaning is contradictory.
Please take a look through the forum guidelines before posting. This folder is only for general strategy questions, not content or specific test problems. Check out the content / problem folders and post in the relevant folder depending upon the source of the problem you want to post—for example, this post would go in the General Verbal folder.
I'll give you a short answer here; if you have more questions about this content, please post in the General Verbal folder.
1. The risk of me getting an accident is high.
First, this one is missing a word; it needs to say "The risk of me getting IN an accident is high."
Second, this construction is common in casual speech but it wouldn't be correct for the GMAT. You'd need to say something like "The risk that I get into an accident is high."
2. The risk that I get an accident is high.
Oh look—just like you wrote here.
(Except there's still that one word missing—get INTO an accident.)You could also say something like this: My risk of getting into an accident is high.
3. The risk of an accident happening to me is high.
This is called a passive construction. Passive constructions are valid but can sometimes sound wordy or awkward. If you want the emphasis to be on the person at risk of the accident (ie, you!), then you'd use an active contstruction as in #2. If you want the emphasis to be on the risk, then you would use a passive construction like this one.
And you might even go further and remove the person entirely: In these circumstances, the risk of an accident occurring is quite high.
3. If you mess up, I guarantee it won't end up with you keeping all your teeth.
The classic construction is "I guarantee it won't end well." You can change "well" to any detail you want: I guarantee it won't end with you keeping all of your teeth. I guarantee it won't end on a good note. (You don't need the word "up"—though lots of people would use that in casual speech.)
4. If you mess up, I guarantee it won't end up with the fact that you will keep all your teeth.
You wouldn't use "the fact that" in this particular sentence because you are trying to say that the person will *not* end up keeping all of their teeth. But the placement of "the fact that" in this example indicates that the person *will* keep all of their teeth, so the meaning is contradictory.
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