Comments on: In tatters https://plainenglish.com/expressions/in-tatters/ Upgrade your English Thu, 21 Nov 2024 05:11:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Jeff https://plainenglish.com/expressions/in-tatters/#comment-5640 Wed, 06 Dec 2023 14:51:49 +0000 https://plainenglish.com/?post_type=expressions&p=19721#comment-5640 In reply to Claudio.

Good example. You can just say, “Syria is in tatters” instead of “the Syrian country”

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By: Claudio https://plainenglish.com/expressions/in-tatters/#comment-5629 Wed, 06 Dec 2023 00:26:16 +0000 https://plainenglish.com/?post_type=expressions&p=19721#comment-5629 After years of civil war the Syrian country is in tatters and the media no longer talks about it

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By: Jeff https://plainenglish.com/expressions/in-tatters/#comment-5609 Tue, 05 Dec 2023 00:52:46 +0000 https://plainenglish.com/?post_type=expressions&p=19721#comment-5609 In reply to Eugene.

A few things here. First, you have an agreement problem. The first part says, “After being unable to refinance,” so you have to think of who “is unable to refinance” and that is the company. So the second half of your sentence has to start with “the company” – instead, you started it with “the company’s plans.” But the plans weren’t unable to refinance, the company was. So you’d have to rearrange this and make “the company” the subject of the second half: “After being unable to refinance its loans due to the rapid increase in interest rates, the company found its plans to restore its solvency were in tatters.”

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By: Eugene https://plainenglish.com/expressions/in-tatters/#comment-5584 Mon, 04 Dec 2023 14:14:26 +0000 https://plainenglish.com/?post_type=expressions&p=19721#comment-5584 After being unable to refinance its loans due to rapid increase of interest rates, the company’s plans to restore its solvency is in tatters.

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