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welkins2139 · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 252

There is no more pain for her than when she sees her cousins make more money than she does.

All her dreams have come true.

All her dreams become true.

Are they OK?

Thank You

LucentShade · Joined: 30 Dec 2003 Posts: 542 Location: Nebraska, USA

There is no more pain for her than when she sees her cousins make more money than she does.

Good, but I would say, "There is nothing more painful for her than seeing her cousins make more money than she does." (Note: you will probably hear native speakers end sentences like this with ~than her.)

All her dreams have come true.

Good.

All her dreams become true.

Correct grammatically, but it means that things that happen in her dreams actually happen in real life. (I interpret "dreams" in this context as the dreams she has while sleeping, *not* her dreams in the sense of goals/hopes/aspirations.)