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Is this English sentence correct?.
I have doubts about it, since maybe it should be used in the sentence "hollows out" instead of "hollows". In the way I understand the sentence, the water dropping is perforating the stone, so I assume that "hollow" should be a verb and not a noun. Checking the Cambridge advanced learner's dictionary, 4th edition, I just could find hollow as a noun or adjective but not as a verb (hollow out).
Can any English native speaker give his/her feedback about this?.
It sounds wrong to me, too.
If one of my students wrote a sentence like this, I'd suggest something like the following.
One drop of water doesn't create a hole in a rock, but water constantly dripping in the same place could.
.... or something like that, depending on what the student intended to say.
After seven months from my comment, should this sentence be corrected?
If "hollow" is used here as a phrasal verb, then, the sentence should be rewritten like this "hollows a stone out" ... or other similar way.
Maybe some native english speakers, as CK and others should give their opinion about it.
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This sentence was initially added as a translation of sentence #3103933
A water drop hollows a stone not by force but by falling often.
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