interesting to study

[navi]

Are these sentences correct:

1) This animal's behavior is interesting to study.
2) This animal's behavior is interesting for us to study.

3) This animal's behavior is compelling to study.
4) This animal's behavior is compelling for us to study.

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Gratefully,
Navi


Lost in the Twilight Zone of the English language
Obsessed with ambiguity
Interested in strange structures

[Snidely]

On Saturday, navi pointed out that ...

Post by navi
1) This animal's behavior is interesting to study.
2) This animal's behavior is interesting for us to study.

Both are correct, but 1) is finer.

Post by navi
3) This animal's behavior is compelling to study.
4) This animal's behavior is compelling for us to study.

Not comfortable with either of these. I would try

5) This animal's behavior compels us to study it

but I fear I've shaded the meaning too much.

Perhaps

6) This animal's behavior is a compelling study.

/dps

[Athel Cornish-Bowden]

Post by Snidely
On Saturday, navi pointed out that ...

Post by navi
1) This animal's behavior is interesting to study.
2) This animal's behavior is interesting for us to study.

Both are correct, but 1) is finer.

Post by navi
3) This animal's behavior is compelling to study.
4) This animal's behavior is compelling for us to study.

Not comfortable with either of these. I would try
5) This animal's behavior compels us to study it
but I fear I've shaded the meaning too much.
Perhaps
6) This animal's behavior is a compelling study.

I wrote my reply deliberately before reading yours, but I see that we
are broadly in agreement.

[Paul Carmichael]

Post by Snidely
6) This animal's behavior is a compelling study.

Surely that needs a conditional. Behaviour isn't a study. But it could
warrant one.

[LionelEdwards]

Post by Paul Carmichael

Post by Snidely
6) This animal's behavior is a compelling study.

Surely that needs a conditional. Behaviour isn't a study.

"Behavioural studies" isn't a University Course?

[Peter Moylan]

Post by LionelEdwards

Post by Paul Carmichael

Post by Snidely
6) This animal's behavior is a compelling study.

Surely that needs a conditional. Behaviour isn't a study.

"Behavioural studies" isn't a University Course?

The fact that you can study behaviour doesn't make behaviour a study.

[LionelEdwards]

Post by Peter Moylan

Post by LionelEdwards

Post by Paul Carmichael

Post by Snidely
6) This animal's behavior is a compelling study.

Surely that needs a conditional. Behaviour isn't a study.

"Behavioural studies" isn't a University Course?

The fact that you can study behaviour doesn't make behaviour a study.

"Hegel is arguing that the reality is merely an a priori adjunct
of non-naturalistic ethics, Kant via the categorical imperative
is holding that ontologically it exists only in the imagination,
and Marx is claiming it was offside."

[J. J. Lodder]

Post by LionelEdwards

Post by Paul Carmichael

Post by Snidely
6) This animal's behavior is a compelling study.

Surely that needs a conditional. Behaviour isn't a study.

"Behavioural studies" isn't a University Course?

They call it ethology,

Jan

[Athel Cornish-Bowden]

Post by navi
1) This animal's behavior is interesting to study.
2) This animal's behavior is interesting for us to study.
3) This animal's behavior is compelling to study.
4) This animal's behavior is compelling for us to study.

3 and 4 are weird and unnatural. 1 ad 2 say the same thing, except that
2 is verbose.

[LionelEdwards]

Post by navi
1) This animal's behavior is interesting to study.
2) This animal's behavior is interesting for us to study.
3) This animal's behavior is compelling to study.
4) This animal's behavior is compelling for us to study.

They are all good informal English.

[Hibou]

Post by navi
1) This animal's behavior is interesting to study.
2) This animal's behavior is interesting for us to study.
3) This animal's behavior is compelling to study.
4) This animal's behavior is compelling for us to study.

This animal's behaviour is interesting, and worth studying.