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Cat pen Posted 8 years ago
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By + gerund
Which is correct?
One way to improve my English speaking skills is (by not reading / not by reading}.
One way to improve my English speaking skills is (by not reading / not by reading), but by speaking English.
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cat pen One way to improve my English speaking skills is by not reading. This says that you can improve if you purposely do not read. cat pen One way to improve my English speaking skills is not by reading, but by speaking English.
- cat pen One way to improve my English speaking skills is by not reading.
- This says that you can improve if you purposely do not read.
- cat pen One way to improve my English speaking skills is not by reading, but by speaking English.
- Here, you want to keep 'not' and 'but' parallel by putting both just before 'by'.
- It says that speaking English helps, but reading English does not help so much, if at all.
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cat penOne way to improve my English speaking skills is by not reading.
This says that you can improve if you purposely do not read.
cat penOne way to improve my English speaking skills is not by reading, but by speaking English.
Here, you want to keep 'not' and 'but' parallel by putting both just before 'by'. It
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