The most macabre suggestion.... Please help me out

Hi @Alan @Torsten @Andrea

  • A line by Robert Morley in the film: ‘Who’s Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?’

He said: ‘This is the most macabre suggestion it has ever been my misfortune to hear.’

Is this grammatically correct and does it sound natural?

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Hi Marc, in my book the sentence is correct and sounds natural although it’s a rare case that somebody would create a sentence like.

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Exactly, but I’ve heard similar sentences before, mostly from older Englishman in television films. Perhaps it’s the dialogue writer’s privilege to make sentences like that.

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That’s absolutely fine. Is there something in the sentence that you think is wrong?

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Alan, I’m so happy you’re all right. Thank you for your reply. I hope you like Roger Morley as well as he is thé Englishman à la carte. Please, do me a favour and check Torsten sentence: ‘if tests took overnight…’ It’s aching him. Help him as good as you possibly can.

Thanks.

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