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Is it Okay to Just Say University?
Is it okay to say:
I became careless after dropping out of the university.
Or do I have to clarify which university I dropped out of?
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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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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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Will have + past participle for the past tense
Sometimes “will have” is used to refer to the past. It has more or less the same meaning as “must have”.
She must have done it yesterday = she will have done it yesterday
Yet, we don’t use “mustn’t ...
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Verb agreement in conditional sentence
If he was there, he must have heard the talk.
Is "was" in the first part correct with "must have" used in the second part?
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Will and be going to for predictions
While studying the 'first conditional' in Outcomes Pre-intermediate, I found a sentence
If you don't get enough sleep, you are not going to be at your best.
Why do we use be going to for this ...
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