Wrong or correct?.
Hi friends, this is the sentence of my own.
but I wonder if it is correct.
here is the sentence: "you need to go through a great deal of suffering like all the successful people did, if you want to be successful" or "you need to go through a great deal of suffering like all the successful people do, if you want to be successful". which one is more grammatically correct. Thanks in advance.
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Both sentences a grammatically correct. The first sentence is written in the past simple and the second is written in the present simple. So it’s got less to do with the grammar than it does to do with the meaning. Which sentence is more appropriate depends on the message you are trying to send.
If you say: You need to go through a great deal of suffering like all the great people did.
It means that the great people suffered a lot in their past but they are no longer suffering today.
If you say: You need to go through a great deal of suffering like all the great people do.
It means the great people suffered in their past and continue to suffer. So suffering is apart of the life of the successful. It always was and always will be.
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The first one is correct
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Thanks.
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The first one
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