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Diamondrg Posted 20 years ago
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1 b 00 Here is a question from a nationwide exam in Turkey, KPDS. I am stuck between D and A. Could you clarify the point? 02 b 02 br
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01 b 00 I was forced to admit that there was a drop in sales towards the end of the year ---- he had predicted. 02 b 02 br
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01 b 00 I was forced to admit that there was a drop in sales towards the end of the year ---- he had predicted. 02 b 02 br
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0 Well, there's no doubt that D is the right answer. 02 br
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00 "just as" implies equality. 02 br
00 "such as" implies similarity. 02 br
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00 "just as" is the idiom for saying that someone was exactly right. 02 br
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00 just as she said 02 br
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00 "just as" implies equality. 02 br
00 "such as" implies similarity. 02 br
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00 "just as" is the idiom for saying that someone was exactly right. 02 br
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0 Hi CaliFjim, 02 br
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00 What I wonder is;what if we excluded "just as" from the options and substitute it with some other unrelated option.Would we then choose "such as" as the correct answer? 02 br
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00 What I wonder is;what if we excluded "just as" from the options and substitute it with some other unrelated option.Would we then choose "such as" as the correct answer? 02 br
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0 So I understand that they ("just as" and "such as") are not interchangeable, but what about the sentences below? Can't we use "just as" instead of "such as" in these sentences? I find it hard to understand whether they imply "equality" or "similarity". 02 br
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00 - They did not fail to leave the cabins, to see if the eclipse would really be such as we had predicted it. 02 b
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00 - They did not fail to leave the cabins, to see if the eclipse would really be such as we had predicted it. 02 b
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0 These examples surprise me. Are they British English? Or the English of many years ago? 02 br
00 The most surprising is "precisely such as", which seems to contradict itself somewhat, at least to my ear: "precisely as" and "somewhat like" all in one! 02 br
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00 Some of your new examples make sense to me as containing the idea of similarity: 02 br
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00 The most surprising is "precisely such as", which seems to contradict itself somewhat, at least to my ear: "precisely as" and "somewhat like" all in one! 02 br
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00 Some of your new examples make sense to me as containing the idea of similarity: 02 br
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01 cite 10 CalifJim 12 cite 10 These examples surprise me. Are they British English? Or the English of many years ago? 12 br10 Kili, would you like to answer this? 0-
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01 cite 10 CalifJim 12 cite 10 Some of your new examples make sense to me as containing the idea of similarity: 12 br
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10 .. to see if the eclipse would 11 b 10 really 12 b 10 be 11 u 10 like 12 u 10 what we had predicted. ( 11 i 10 really 12 i 10 shows doubt about the equa
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0 I think I understand the question. 02 br
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00 They are not completely interchangeable to me. They mean slightly different things. 02 br
00 But in a test question there has to be some clue in the rest of the sentence which leads us to the correct choice. When nothing else in the sentence gives any clue as to which of the two ("just as" / "such as") works be
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00 They are not completely interchangeable to me. They mean slightly different things. 02 br
00 But in a test question there has to be some clue in the rest of the sentence which leads us to the correct choice. When nothing else in the sentence gives any clue as to which of the two ("just as" / "such as") works be
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