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Superduper Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Certain vs. definite

You can be certain that we have not change any.
You can be definite that we have not~.

Why is the second sentence wrong?
  

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We simply do not use 'definite' in that structure (' you/we/etc can be certain/sure that. ')

  • We simply do not use 'definite' in that structure (' you/we/etc can be certain/sure that.
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We simply do not use 'definite' in that structure ('you/we/etc can be certain/sure that....')

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