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Which is better?
"there is a downside to our exponentially printing of money," or
"there is a downside to our exponential printing of money." or
"there is a downside to our exponentially printing money." I'm confused.
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the first option just sounds wrong to me; as to the other two, pick 'em depending on context.
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And it sounds wrong for a good reason. It is wrong. In the phrase printing of money, printing is a noun and the whole phrase is a noun phrase. It should take an adjective, not an adverb. In the third sentence printing money is a verb phrase and the verb, printing, takes an adverb.
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The rate at which money is being printed could, I suppose, increase exponentially, but how does one print exponentially?
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The rate at which money is being printed could, I suppose, increase exponentially, but how does one print exponentially? By increasing the rate at which the printing is done exponentially.
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So..., if I increase my rate of printing dramatically I'm printing dramatically?
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Naw. You don't need the magic of ellipsis if you're printing dramatically.
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Ellipsis allows exponential printing with linear inking.
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Thanks; I thought it(option #1) was wrong, but couldn't exactly remember why. Been a while since I took "grammar calculus" in college.
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