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Grammar query

Hi,
I just wanted to clarify a word choice. Can you say "making a selfish fuss," as usually you would write a big or huge fuss. This is just for story writing.

Thanks.

Re: Grammar query

Hi Deedee

I checked my corpus and it returned zero occurrences of "making a selfish fuss" in books over the last 100 years, so it's certainly not a popular choice!

Google however had a few hits for it.

But it's not ungrammatical, so if you feel it helps you to express a certain meaning, then go ahead and use it.


PaulM