Age decrease
Recently I shaved off my beard and people complementing me that I look 5 years younger than my actual age.
So is it
Shaving decreases my age 5 years.
Or
Shaving decreases my age by 5 years.
What is the difference in the meaning of both sentence.
Top answer
Liton Das compl i menting me Liton Das Shaving decreases my age 5 years. Shaving decreases my age by 5 years. The first sentence is an abbreviated (and more casual-sounding) version of the second, but neither is really what we are likely to say.
- Liton Das compl i menting me Liton Das Shaving decreases my age 5 years.
- Shaving decreases my age by 5 years.
- The first sentence is an abbreviated (and more casual-sounding) version of the second, but neither is really what we are likely to say.
- For one thing, it sounds too literal.
- : Shaving makes me look five years younger.
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Liton Dascomplimenting me
Liton DasShaving decreases my age 5 years.
Shaving decreases my age by 5 years.
The first sentence is an abbreviated (and more casual-sounding) version of the second, but neither is really what we are likely to say. For one thing, it sounds too lite
0In some other languages, such term could be used but in a slang and people understand it that way without taking it literally. I think the problem is that OP used "present simple" and present simple in English is usually used to talk about FACTS (such as scientific issues that are proved); and that what made it unacceptable or weird in hearing, because shaving, in fact, is
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