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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
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Can it be this way too?
Hi, Please take a look at this and tell me if they can be like those too.
It exhibits various artifacts of the past, which had been used (can it be "has been used"??) and passed (can it be "has passed"??) on generation and generation for centuries up until only several decades ago and had vanished (can it be "was vanished"??) was with the start of industrialization ...
It exhibits various artifacts of the past, which had been used (can it be "has been used"??) and passed (can it be "has passed"??) on generation and generation for centuries up until only several decades ago and had vanished (can it be "was vanished"??) was with the start of industrialization ...
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Hi, Please take a look at this and tell me if they can be like those too. ) was with the start of industrialization ... ) No.
- Hi, Please take a look at this and tell me if they can be like those too.
- ) was with the start of industrialization ...
- ) No.
- The reference is to the period of time up until a point several decades ago , rather than up until the present.
- ) No.
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Hi,
Please take a look at this and tell me if they can be like those too.
It exhibits various artifacts of the past, which had been used (can it be "has been used"??) and passed (can it be "has passed"??) on generation and generation for centuries up until only several decades ago and had vanished (can it be
Please take a look at this and tell me if they can be like those too.
It exhibits various artifacts of the past, which had been used (can it be "has been used"??) and passed (can it be "has passed"??) on generation and generation for centuries up until only several decades ago and had vanished (can it be
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Thank you, Clive.
Can you tell me why it would be ungrammatical, as you said, to say "It exhibits various artifacts of the past, which ... and was vanished with the start of industrialization ..." and it is proper to say "It exhibits various artifacts of the past, which ... and vanished with the start of industrialization ..." I Googled and there seemed to be more than pl
Can you tell me why it would be ungrammatical, as you said, to say "It exhibits various artifacts of the past, which ... and was vanished with the start of industrialization ..." and it is proper to say "It exhibits various artifacts of the past, which ... and vanished with the start of industrialization ..." I Googled and there seemed to be more than pl
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Hi again,
Can you tell me why it would be ungrammatical, as you said, to say "It exhibits various artifacts of the past, which ... and was vanished with the start of industrialization ..." and it is proper to say "It exhibits various artifacts of the past, which ... and vanished with the start of industrialization ..." I Googled and there seemed to be
Can you tell me why it would be ungrammatical, as you said, to say "It exhibits various artifacts of the past, which ... and was vanished with the start of industrialization ..." and it is proper to say "It exhibits various artifacts of the past, which ... and vanished with the start of industrialization ..." I Googled and there seemed to be
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CliveNow, please try to write a simple sentence using the phrase 'was vanished'.That's a passive voice construction thus requiring a transitive verb which vanish is not.
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Hi,
Yes. I was hoping that the anonymous poster would realize this by trying unsuccessfully to construct a simple sentence with the phrase.
Yes. I was hoping that the anonymous poster would realize this by trying unsuccessfully to construct a simple sentence with the phrase.
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