When Solving Math Problems
(A) When solving math problems, I less easily make careless mistakes than when other subjects ones.
(B) Math lets me avoid careless mistakes more often than other subjects.
(A) is a sentence my friend wrote, and (B) is one I've rewritten.
Do you think these are correct?
And I'd appreciate if you'd told me another good example!
(B) Math lets me avoid careless mistakes more often than other subjects.
(A) is a sentence my friend wrote, and (B) is one I've rewritten.
Do you think these are correct?
And I'd appreciate if you'd told me another good example!
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Your examples made it very clear to me.
Thank you very much, jve_84-san!!
(A) When solving mathematics problems, I am less likely to make careless mistakes than (when solving) problems in other subjects.
(B) Mathematics causes me to make careless mistakes less often than other subjects.
Do you think these are correct? [The phrase "when other subjects ones" in your friend's sentence is wrong. The rest is correct, but not natural. The word "lets" is strange in your version, and "avoiding mistakes more often" is less natural than "making mistakes less often." I would say that your version is correct but unnatural.]
I make careless mistakes less when doing mathematics than when doing other subjects.
Thank you so much as always, tony-san!
(1) let someone do something (interpreting "let" as present tense)
allow someone to do something
permit someone to do something
enable someone to do something
help someone to do something
(2) make someone do something
cause someone to do something
force someone to do something
result (inevitably) in someone doing something
These tend not to be used with negative verbs. There are other expressions which are usually used in place of letting/making someone not do something:
(1')
help/allow/permit/enable someone to avoid doing something
(2')
keep/prevent/hinder someone from doing something
(A) When solving math problems, I make careless mistakes less easily than when in other subjects ones.
(A) is a sentence my friend wrote, and (B) is the one I've rewritten.
And I'd appreciate it if you'd told me another good example!