Sometimes/ usage

Sometimes/ usage
Message from sabrina1011 posted on 30-11-2013 at 13:01:27 (D | E | F)
Hello ,

I have got a question.
There are three sentences below.
1. Sometimes he drives to work, but he sometimes doesn't.
2. Sometimes he drives to work, but he sometimes doesn't.
3. Sometimes he drives to work, but sometimes doesn't.
Which is correct?

Thank you for your help.
Sabrina

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Edited by lucile83 on 30-11-2013 13:19

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Re: Sometimes/ usage from lucile83, posted on 30-11-2013 at 13:27:38 (D | E)
Hello,

1. Sometimes he drives to work, but he sometimes doesn't.
2. Sometimes he drives to work, but he sometimes doesn't.
3. Sometimes he drives to work, but sometimes doesn't.
1 and 2 are similar, there is no difference
3 doesn't work.

Anyway I'd say:
Sometimes he drives to work, sometimes he doesn't.
The word 'but' is useless.
Just to keep the rhythm, the balance or melody of the sentence.

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Re: Sometimes/ usage from sabrina1011, posted on 30-11-2013 at 16:59:34 (D | E)
Thank you for answering, Lucile.
Sabrina

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Re: Sometimes/ usage from disenchanted, posted on 30-11-2013 at 19:41:46 (D | E)
Hi!

As a native English speaker, I can tell you that we very rarely would repeat the 'sometimes he doesn't'.
So, it'd just be "Sometimes he drives to work." The fact that other times he gets to work some other way is already implied by the use of sometimes at the beginning of the sentence.

Hope I helped,
Disenchanted

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Re: Sometimes/ usage from lucile83, posted on 30-11-2013 at 20:21:35 (D | E)
Hello disenchanted

That is what we call 'fioriture' in French, flourish in English

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Re: Sometimes/ usage from sabrina1011, posted on 01-12-2013 at 12:36:37 (D | E)
Thank you for answering.
Sabrina

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