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How can I make this sentence sound natural? If an officer shouts "Bag check!" to another officer at the airport, that means that your luggage is to be checked.
Aug 26, 2014 8:19 PM
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There are no actual errors here, but the 'is to be' phrase sounds a little awkward. This is quite a formal construction, and it doesn't sit comfortably in the sentence. How you change it would depend on the nuance of what you want to say: needs to be? has to be? is about to be?
August 26, 2014
Thanks.
August 27, 2014
"...must be..."
August 27, 2014
Мне нужно сказать "подлежит проверке".
August 27, 2014
What about 'is going to be'?
August 26, 2014
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