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    Adverbials/help

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    Adverbials/help
    Message from passenger75 posted on 02-08-2015 at 13:30:16 (D | E | F)
    Hi,
    could you help me please?
    "When I don't see him very often, I try to keep in touch via chatting through the internet". I think something is wrong with it but I can't explain.
    Well, I think we shouldn't use an adverb of frequency here... maybe we'd better replace "very often" by "for sometime" because a period of time is implied not the number of times we visit each other.
    Thanks in advance.

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    Edited by lucile83 on 02-08-2015 18:58


    Re: Adverbials/help from gerondif, posted on 02-08-2015 at 15:11:23 (D | E)
    Hello,
    very often can be seen as awkward, it depends how you feel the sentence:
    some variations:
    "When I don't see him as often as I would like, I try to keep in touch via chatting through the internet".
    "When I don't see him for some time, I try to keep in touch via chatting through the internet".
    "If I don't see him very often, I try to keep in touch via chatting through the internet".
    "Since I don't see him very often, I try to keep in touch via chatting through the internet".
    "Since I only see him from time to time,I try to keep in touch via chatting through the internet".
    "When I haven't heard from him for a while, I try to keep in touch via chatting through the internet".




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