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by iamcste » Sun Nov 23, 2008 9:08 am
moneyman wrote:Pls explain
IMO B

such as v/s like

and parallelism
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by Tryingmybest » Sun Nov 23, 2008 9:12 am
IMO B or D
iamcste - Could you please explain why u chose B and not D?Thanks.
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by iamcste » Sun Nov 23, 2008 9:25 am
Tryingmybest wrote:IMO B or D
iamcste - Could you please explain why u chose B and not D?Thanks.

Pronoun those is ambigous and althogther an awkward construction
Like means similar , such as means examples , which we need here exactly
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by Tryingmybest » Sun Nov 23, 2008 9:29 am
Thanks iamcste !!
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by ohwell » Sun Nov 23, 2008 8:43 pm
Nevermind my previous comment. I get it now. I just put "fundamentally important areas" between brackets and the remaining construction is "such as", the proper construction to introduce examples, which is what happens here. Like is always wrong when used for examples.
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