Can "Combination" Be Applied To A Person?
...But Hornby was well aware that, of all the knowledge and skills which a language learner must master, the most important element, and the one involving the heaviest learning load, is an adquate working vocabulary. In this connection he saw clearly that, along with a good learner's grammar, a students of English can benefit enormously from a well-produced pedagogically-oriented monolingual dictionary. Such a work has the space to provide detailed practical information about the most important words of the language: pronunciations, key meanings, collocations, grammatical patterning, synonym comparisons, constraints on usage and so on. Hornby was that rare combination.
1. Can "combination" be used to describe a person, not a thing?
2. Does that mean Hornby was the one who rarely combinated them?
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anonymous 1. Can "combination" be used to describe a person, not a thing? Yes, in the given context.
- anonymous 1.
- Can "combination" be used to describe a person, not a thing?
- Yes, in the given context.
- anonymous 2.
- Does that mean Hornby was the one who rarely combinated combined them?
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anonymous1. Can "combination" be used to describe a person, not a thing?
Yes, in the given context.
anonymous2. Does that mean Hornby was the one who rarelycombinatedcombined them?
No. It means it was rare for someone to know all those things, i.e., Hornby ha
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