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What linker should I use in this case? SHOULD I use "In contrast" when the trends are not opposite?
The percentages of degree holders who had a BA in arts and a BA in science fell from one-fifth and one-fourth, respectively, in 1998 to only around one-tenth in 2008. The figure for those holding an ...
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Can "extents" be plural as in "to much greater/lesser extents"?
The proportion of students opting for the university due to its closeness to home started at 10% in 1997, after which it experienced a sharp rise to 22% within the next decade. Upward trends, but to ...
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when I turned sixteen and moved to Thailand
The speaker spent their entire childhood living in Bulgaria. Then, at the age of sixteen, they left Bulgaria and moved to Thailand. Since that move (from age sixteen up to the present moment) they ...
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“will run” vs “will have run”
If I’m a runner and I want to tell my friend what time (at the latest) I finish today’s run. Can I do it like this:?
I will run/have run by eight
If it’s not correct, please explain why.
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She would’ve already done something that would’ve gotten her closer to financial independence
The example is mine.
Molly’s been in New York for three years already, but due to the fact
that she passes up on every job opportunity, she has to ask her
parents to help her financially. All in all, ...
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Past perfect continuous and duration
Is is true that past perfect continuous can be used with for example "when, before” without duration but with "by, by the time” duration has to be included?
I had been sleeping when she ...
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Word order: Inversion
I recently came across the following:
McCartney said afterwards, 'This has been one of the most illuminating and exciting experiences I have ever had.' Said Lennon, 'It takes a time to come down to ...
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Present Simple and Present Continuous
I was practicing present simple vs present continuous (permanent situations and actions around now). Here is a sentence I found on Test-English.com:
What we don't realise is that we are destroying ...
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Since there are "the four other people" vs "four other people", the place is now crowded
The company A works at, offers free English lessons to all the employees. A and B are discussing A's transfer to another team and their new English group. (The dialogue is mine)
A: You know, last ...
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It's a good thing I've/I noticed the fuel is/was low
John wants to buy a used car, and the owner lets him have it for the day to test drive it. While he's driving, his girlfriend calls. He starts telling her about his summer plans: "I'm going on ...
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Is This Sentence Wordy?
I hate to sound wordy, so I am wondering whether the "I am" at the end of the sentence below is necessary:
I am not as bad as some people say I am.
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had overdone / had been overdoing
#1. I hurt my back. I think I had overdone my stretching last time
I got hurt because I overdid my stretching last time - one-time excessive effort (e.g., during one specific session)
#2. I hurt my ...
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A question about the correctness of sentences
Can A subject + a predicator form a complete sentence? I need to know about this.
For example:
He gives.
They talk.
I send.
I call.
Even though these seem incomplete, are these valid sentences?
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Would the sentence "I've just seen somebody who had scissors" sound clunky in British English?
I remember once being surprised after finding out that British people tend to prefer using present perfect to talk about things that just happened. I'm not from Britain myself, so I have no way of ...
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Only through about 1840
According to Fowler,
The only known plural of oyez is oyesses, but the variant *oyes vied closely with oyez only through about 1840.
What meaning of through is being used here?
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