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sejpdw
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Location: Korea
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 Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 9:37 pm Post subject: worthful |
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1. Though the battle has been long and hard-fought it was worthful.
2. It is worthful to accept the advice.
3. It's worthful taking the trouble to explain a job fully to new employees.
Is it OK to use worthful in these three sentence? |
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Mister Micawber
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While your sentences are grammatical, the word worthful, if not obsolescent, is at least falling out of use; it now appears rather stilted, and had much better be replaced by worthwhile in all of your sample uses.
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