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Makin



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PostPosted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 8:19 am    Post subject: think about Reply with quote
Is "think about" grammatically correct here or should I use consider?

All in all, despite some flaws we can think about ourselves as intelligent.


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Anuradha Chepur



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 12:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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All in all, despite some flaws we can think about ourselves as intelligent.


The sentence isn't incorrect, only a bit clumsy.
You would be better off using consider:

All in all, despite some flaws we can consider ourselves intelligent.
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