Whether you are looking for rest, adventure, or just having fun

English translation: Whether you are looking for rest, adventure or to just have fun

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English term or phrase:Whether you are looking for rest, adventure, or just having fun
Selected answer:Whether you are looking for rest, adventure or to just have fun
Entered by: airmailrpl

20:59 Dec 14, 2015
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Marketing - Tourism & Travel / Agencia de Viajes
English term or phrase: Whether you are looking for rest, adventure, or just having fun
¿Cuál es la construcción gramatical correcta?

-Whether you are looking for rest, adventure, or just having fun in this amazing country, let us help you fulfil all your travel needs with the best hotel, tour and transfer options
-Whether you are looking for rest, adventure or just fun...
Zantike2
Mexico
Local time: 04:38
Whether you are looking for rest, adventure or to just have fun
Explanation:
Whether you are looking for rest, adventure or to just have fun
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airmailrpl
Brazil
Local time: 06:38
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SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED
5 +5whether you are looking for rest, adventure, or just fun
Alice Yang (X)
5 +1whether you are looking for relaxation, adventure or fun
Neda Tasić
4 +1Grammatically correct, but wrong in this context.
B D Finch
4Whether you are looking for rest, adventure or to just have fun
airmailrpl
4whether you are looking for relaxation, adventure, or just having fun
Yvonne Gallagher


Discussion entries: 11





  

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8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
whether you are looking for rest, adventure, or just having fun
Whether you are looking for rest, adventure or to just have fun


Explanation:
Whether you are looking for rest, adventure or to just have fun

airmailrpl
Brazil
Local time: 06:38
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 16

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Yvonne Gallagher: you have a split infinitive//I thought the asker was looking for a grammatically-correct answer. Obviously not! So now we have a split infinitive in glossary. Wonderful!!!
5 mins
  -> works well doesn't it !! - see the discussion

neutral  Cilian O'Tuama: (aside: split infinitives are the least of our worries)
1 hr
  -> ??

agree  acetran: tactical "disagree"?
3 hrs
  -> ??
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38 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
whether you are looking for rest, adventure, or just having fun
whether you are looking for relaxation, adventure or fun


Explanation:
Three nouns connected with a coordinating conjunction - equal forms and status.This sounds to me like the best solution

Neda Tasić
Serbia
Local time: 10:38
Works in field
Native speaker of: Serbian

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Jean-Claude Gouin
22 hrs
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44 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +5
whether you are looking for rest, adventure, or just having fun
whether you are looking for rest, adventure, or just fun


Explanation:
For complete grammatical correctness, all items in the list should be grammatically parallel. "Having fun" is a gerund, whereas the other items are not. Simply dropping the "having" will correct the problem.

Changing "rest" to "relaxation" does not help with the grammar problem. In fact, I think changing it to "relaxation" changes the meaning slightly.

Alice Yang (X)
United States
Local time: 05:38
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  B D Finch: I agree that substituting "relaxation" changes the meaning. However, the source sentence is "grammatically parallel": whether you are looking for rest, adventure, or [are] just having fun. "Having" is a participle here, not a gerund.
1 hr
  -> Oops, very likely I got the names of the parts of speech wrong. Sorry about that.

agree  John Detre
3 hrs
  -> Thank you, John.

agree  Arabic & More: I agree with you and don't think "are" just having fun was meant here. I'd also add "some" to your suggestion: rest, adventure, or just some fun.
14 hrs
  -> Thanks, Amel.

agree  Phong Le
15 hrs
  -> Thank you, Phong.

agree  Jean-Claude Gouin
22 hrs
  -> Thank you.

agree  acetran
1 day 6 hrs
  -> Thank you, acetran.
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
whether you are looking for rest, adventure, or just having fun
Grammatically correct, but wrong in this context.


Explanation:
As I commented on Alice's answer, the source sentence is "grammatically parallel": whether you are looking for rest, adventure, or [are] just having fun. "Having" is a participle here, not a gerund. However, it is wrong in the context because "let us help you fulfil all your travel needs with the best hotel, tour and transfer options," makes clear that this is addressed to somebody who is not yet there. So, rest, adventure and fun must all be future prospects, but "[are] just having fun" is present tense.

Therefore, your second proposal "Whether you are looking for rest, adventure or just fun ..." should be used.

B D Finch
France
Local time: 10:38
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  acetran
4 days
  -> Thanks acetran. I think the Asker's own second suggestion was better English than the answer chosen.
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13 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
whether you are looking for rest, adventure, or just having fun
whether you are looking for relaxation, adventure, or just having fun


Explanation:
is OK
but "relaxation" is probably better than "rest"

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Note added at 3 hrs (2015-12-15 00:13:02 GMT)
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I see some others don't like my substitution of "relaxation"...personally I much prefer it in this tourism context. People don't go on holiday to have a rest but to relax

as BDF points out, rest of sentence in future means your second option is better

though "just fun" is not quite the same as "just having fun" so perhaps

-Whether you are looking for rest/relaxation or adventure or just looking to have some fun...

Yvonne Gallagher
Ireland
Local time: 09:38
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 12

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Cilian O'Tuama: looking for just having fun? Or did you intend to parse/punctuate it differently?
2 hrs
  -> or ARE just having fun...if you insist, though unnecessary imo
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