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Mar 12 |
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what's the difference between “apparent”, “evident” and “obvious”? @JohnM.Landsberg not sure why you think only one is correct in Q3. It is clear that you have been cheated. It is apparent that you have been cheated. It is regretful that you have been cheated. All of these work equally well, no matter how the question is formulated. |
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Mar 11 |
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what's the difference between “apparent”, “evident” and “obvious”? @jwpat7 "It is stupid that he ____" is acceptable although informal. It yields .4 mil results on Google if that tells you anything. |
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Mar 11 |
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what's the difference between “apparent”, “evident” and “obvious”? @JohnM.Landsberg --agreed on differentiation (however slight), but the test does not ask to differentiate. The choices given are all more or less correct, with the exception of two. |
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Mar 11 |
awarded | Commentator |
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Mar 11 |
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what's the difference between “apparent”, “evident” and “obvious”? I am sorry to say, the people who wrote that test do not speak English well. All of the options are plausible, except for 2.D and 3.D. |
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Mar 11 |
answered | what's the difference between “apparent”, “evident” and “obvious”? |
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Mar 7 |
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“I don't know” is to “agnostic” as “I don't care” is to what adjective? link cleanup |
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Mar 7 |
suggested | suggested edit on “I don't know” is to “agnostic” as “I don't care” is to what adjective? |
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Feb 11 |
awarded | Critic |
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Feb 11 |
awarded | Supporter |
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Feb 11 |
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Question Regarding Possessives with ('s) and (of) Shawn, consider He is a friend of Moses and He is a friend of Obama. Both are perfectly acceptable and more common than what you are calling the "correct" construction. |
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Feb 11 |
answered | Is there a better way to refer to “Real Life” when chatting online? |
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Feb 11 |
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Question Regarding Possessives with ('s) and (of) Agreed with Hanna for the most part. As to Geek's comment: please read my answer carefully. At no part did I say anything goes. Both of the suggested usages are well-attested in the written record. Moreover, expert opinion allows for both single and double possessives (for the same reason: good writers in English use both). There is no rule governing this case however. "A friend of me" is ten times less common than "a friend of mine," for example. Why? Because that's the way people speak--quite different form "anything goes." |
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Feb 10 |
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Question Regarding Possessives with ('s) and (of) The problem is with your insistence on "proper" and "correct," which I thought needed to be addressed. Otherwise, both are common and sanctioned by experts. |
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Feb 10 |
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Question Regarding Possessives with ('s) and (of) I respectfully disagree. If you cannot be bothered to read eight sentences, you are in the wrong place. And even then, I separated the answer into a separate paragraph. |
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Feb 10 |
answered | Question Regarding Possessives with ('s) and (of) |
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Jan 25 |
awarded | Analytical |
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Jan 25 |
awarded | Informed |
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Jan 24 |
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Can I grow some gratitude? I see your point, but I don't think there is any disagreement. The template is "grow some x", which of course means different things depending on what x is. What I want the OP to understand is that "growing gratitude" is not idiomatic or natural in English, along with suggesting some reasons as to why that might be the case. |
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Jan 24 |
awarded | Editor |
