Posted by musicgold · April 27, 2011 · 1 replies
Hi,
I am a newbie here. I am working on my English fluency. Though my sentences are generally gramatically correct, they tend not to be natural or idomatic. I hope native speakers here will help me with this problem.
Are the following sentences natural to a native ear?
1. Do you get an overhang form drinking this?
2. Over next five years we want to grow this company twice/ double.
3. However much you feel that way, it is not going to happen.
Thanks,
MG.
1. Do you get a hangover from drinking this?
An "overhang" is a piece of rock which sticks out from a cliff or mountain side. If you search Google images for cliff overhang you'll see some examples. A "hangover" is how you feel after drinking too much.
2. Over the next few years we want to grow this company to twice/double its size.
The expression "to grow a company" is fairly new in the language, and still sounds strange to me. But it's used a lot.
Sentence 3 sounds possible to me.
