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simba0722
Does this sound natural?
A friend of mine hemmed and hawed for months about whether Mac or Win he should buy and then it seems he has finally pulled the trigger on it.
27 juil. 2019 07:47
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"...about whether Mac or Win he should buy..." should be "about whether he should buy a Mac or a PC".
Then the last verb in the sentence should be in past tense, since the first part of the sentence suggests this all happened in the past. "pull the trigger on it" sounds like a misheard idiom. Speakers just say something like "he went ahead and chose one."
27 juillet 2019
'Hemmed and hawed' is US, so fine there. UK English it would need changing to 'hummed and hawed'.
So correct and natural if you follow NA English, otherwise the small change I mentioned.
27 juillet 2019
Thank you!!
29 juillet 2019
It’s hummed and harred, (pronounced /hard/), in Uk English.
27 juillet 2019
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simba0722
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Anglais, Japonais
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Anglais
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