Christina
Qs help ""He is a police as quickly as becoming a robber."" Can I use this sentence to express " he is also a police and robber"?
Oct 23, 2014 3:45 AM
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Try "He is a policeman, but quickly becoming a robber". Many policemen make up the police department, but there is no such thing as 'a police'.

 

With regards to the next sentence, if the target sentence can be restated as "He is one of our colleagues but sometimes he may be an enemy", the notion 'sometimes' and 'quickly becoming' are not equal. Sometimes implies two state are possible. 'Quickly becoming' implies a one directional change from state ‘A’ to state ‘B’.

October 23, 2014
""He is a colleagues as quickly as becoming a enemy."" Can I use this sentence to express " he is our colleagues but sometimes he may be a enemy"?
October 23, 2014
If that is what you want to express then I think it would be more understandable if you said, "He is a police but is quickly becoming a robber."
October 23, 2014
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