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Milky Posted 20 years ago
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00"Yesterday it was possible that the stock market would go up today."0-
  

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0Hi,02br
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00"01font00Yesterday it was possible that the stock market would go up today."02font02br
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00It seems OK to me. You could also say02br
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0I might put a comma after "yesterday". But I wouldn't insist that anyone else did. Other than that, it seems fine in grammatical terms.02br
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00In terms of meaning, I would say that the notion that "stocks may go up as well as down" is inherent in the concept of a "stock market". So it looks a little tautological.02br
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