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| visits | member for | 1 year, 4 months |
| seen | Apr 23 '12 at 16:28 | |
| stats | profile views | 20 |
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Mar 17 |
awarded | Popular Question |
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Apr 14 |
answered | Word to describe being useful to many people |
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Apr 10 |
accepted | “Except as being” or “except being” |
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Apr 10 |
comment |
“Except as being” or “except being” So, the above-mentioned phrase is ungrammatical? |
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Apr 10 |
asked | “Except as being” or “except being” |
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Apr 8 |
awarded | Critic |
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Apr 8 |
answered | Ellipsis or semantically incomplete sentence? |
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Apr 8 |
accepted | “one or other” -correct or incorrect? |
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Apr 8 |
comment |
“one or other” -correct or incorrect? BTW, can "one or other" be considered a collocation? |
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Apr 8 |
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“one or other” -correct or incorrect? Thank you very much,Barrie! :) Another question is whether this collocation is used frequently. Having tried to google it, I found almost none with "one or other". Moreover, it's listed in neither Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English nor Oxford Advanced Learners' Dictionary.. |
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Apr 8 |
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“one or other” -correct or incorrect? It's from "A comprehensive grammar of the English language" by R.Quirk et all. This is why I'm sure that it can't be a typo. Here's one more sentence from the same book: "All of the compounds to be listed in this section are formed on one or other of the patterns already described." And there're many more sentences in which "one or other" is used. |
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Apr 8 |
asked | “one or other” -correct or incorrect? |
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Jan 20 |
awarded | Teacher |
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Jan 19 |
comment |
Alternatives to “this doesn't add any value to that” Gild the lily - means to spoil something by trying to make it better when it's already good enough.. A good idiom, but yet it's not what Diego needed.. |
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Jan 19 |
answered | Difference between “to do as much for you as” and “to do for you as much as” |
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Jan 19 |
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Tenses after “as if” That must be just a typo, I guess... Omitting "from" makes sense..) |
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Jan 19 |
accepted | Tenses after “as if” |
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Jan 19 |
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Tenses after “as if” So it turns out that in this case the future simple in the main clause can precede the past perfect in the adverbial clause.. grammatically it seems a bit strange to me... |
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Jan 19 |
asked | Tenses after “as if” |
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Jan 15 |
accepted | Coordination in “both…and” |
