Lee contributed fifty dollars, but he wishes he could contribute…
A. One other fifty dollars
B. The same amount also
C. Another fifty
D. More fifty dollars
Could you help me to choose it out? I thought it was A or C. But rather A.
The sentence makes no sense as written.
I’d corrected if to he but maybe due to the internet connection failure, it still remained if. I’ve just corrected it.
OK, I see now. Only C works. A does not because ‘one (other) 50’ does not collocate unless it were ‘50-dollar bill’.
So, it implies another fifty note? Because I don’t think there is another fifty dollars.
You think wrong. The original sentence does not speak of 50-dollar bills.
But what about A after being omitted the word One?
No, only another is possible.
Blue Snow,
Hope you don’t mind the digression.
Your sentence means ‘He wishes he was rich enough to contribute more.’
The sentence can be rewritten as ‘He wishes he contributed more’ implying that he feels he should have contributed more than what he did. I think you wanted your sentence to convey such a meaning, didn’t you?
Yes of course but this is from an exercise so I must choose one of the choices.