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Hey Aditya, Not "could", and I can't speak for any situation with "would" other than this sentence. But yes, the example sentence I gave, and the correct answer here, are good to go. -t Hi tommy. Thanks for this detailed explanations but I have doubt in the use of the word -they...
- by allfta
Wed Jun 11, 2014 10:56 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: comparison question -
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Hi! Let's see if I can help! :) Hi friends. I am confusing when can I use adjective to infinitive. First, OG says in problem 133. Last week local shrimpers held a news conference to take some credit for the resurgence of the rare Kemp’s ridley turtle, saying that their compliance with laws requir...
- by allfta
Mon Dec 16, 2013 6:01 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Fickle 0hG - Adjective to
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Fickle 0hG - Adjective to
Hi friends. I am confusing when can I use adjective to infinitive. First, OG says in problem 133. Last week local shrimpers held a news conference to take some credit for the resurgence of the rare Kemp’s ridley turtle, saying that their compliance with laws requiring that turtle-excluder devices ...
- by allfta
Sat Dec 14, 2013 11:52 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Fickle 0hG - Adjective to
- Replies: 2
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But, isn't it possible to think evolved as a adj. but not a verb?Tani wrote:Australian embryologists have found evidence suggesting that the elephant had descended from an aquatic animal with a trunk that originally evolved as a kind of snorkel.
Just like "with my arms folded"
thanks
- by allfta
Sat Dec 14, 2013 11:40 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: question 128 in OG
- Replies: 2
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infinitive
171. Although it was once funded entirely by the government, the Victoria and Albert Museum was one of the first of Britain’s national museums seeking support from corporations and private donors and to increase income by increasing attendance. (A) one of the first of Britain’s national museums ...
- by allfta
Sun Aug 11, 2013 10:46 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: infinitive
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1099
comparison
Dirt roads may evoke the bucolic simplicity of another century, but financially strained townships point out that to maintain dirt roads costs twice the cost to maintain pave roads.
is the above sentence correct?
- by allfta
Sun Aug 11, 2013 10:12 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: comparison
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1073
please confirm my reasoning
~judges or partners of a law firms who are women : judges and patners both all women ~women judges or partners of a law firm : judges only are women but As the chair of BBC and a board member, JP ~ : as the chair~ and (as) a board member -> as also modifies second N. Why? is it becoz of "the&qu...
- by allfta
Sat Aug 10, 2013 6:55 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: please confirm my reasoning
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the issue
Greatly influenced by the Protestant missionary Samuel Kirkland, the Oneida was the only one of the five-nation Iroquois League who sided with the colonists during the American Revolution. A) Same B) was alone of the five-nation Iroquois League when they sided C) alone among the five nations of the ...
- by allfta
Sat Aug 10, 2013 5:54 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: the issue
- Replies: 1
- Views: 936
truly agree. thx! 82. Pioneered by scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory, BEAM robots are not programmed to walk; instead they use brainlike circuits called neural networks to learn to walk through trial and error. D) brainlike circuits called neural networks are used instead of programming f...
- by allfta
Sat Aug 10, 2013 5:43 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Pioneered by scientists at Los Alamos
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Pioneered by scientists at Los Alamos
82. Pioneered by scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory, BEAM robots are not programmed to walk; instead they use brainlike circuits called neural networks to learn to walk through trial and error. o BEAM robots are not programmed to walk; instead they use brainlike circuits called neural netw...
- by allfta
Sat Aug 10, 2013 9:16 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Pioneered by scientists at Los Alamos
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2610
Good questions! Your first point is, strictly speaking, correct: a relative clause should immediately follow the noun that it modifies unless there is another modifier that comes first. For example, a modifier like this is fine: "I have mixed feelings about my old Honda Insight, which got grea...
- by allfta
Wed Aug 07, 2013 6:28 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: sc1
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1563
Hi Allfta! If I understand your questions correctly, you want to know (1) whether you should use "have looked and seen" or "have looked and have seen" and (2) why we prefer "all things antique" to "all antique things". To answer your first question, we use &q...
- by allfta
Wed Aug 07, 2013 5:58 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Tense / Modifier
- Replies: 2
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past perfect and simple past
if I juxtapose "have pp and simple past", isn't seemed little bit ambiguous because the second verb seems like have pp but not like simple past? ex) "I've wondered that ~ and thought ~". In this case, how can we figure it out whether the second verb, 'thought' is simple past or p...
- by allfta
Fri Aug 02, 2013 5:34 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: past perfect and simple past
- Replies: 0
- Views: 880
sc1
Written in ink or engraved by stylus, more than 2,000 letters and documents on wooden tables excavated at the site of the old Roman fort at Vindolanda in northern England are yielding a historical account of the military garrison in the first and second centuries that are so vivid in their details a...
- by allfta
Thu Jul 25, 2013 7:36 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: sc1
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1563
Tense / Modifier
<tense> I am wondering that how can I correctly, at least in SC perspective, use the perfect expression combining with 'and'. For example, when I juxtapose perfect expression and past expression, or even, perfect and perfect, it is hard to decide the repetition of the word "have" after &qu...
- by allfta
Thu Jul 25, 2013 6:42 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Tense / Modifier
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1569