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Laborious Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Confused about the meaning of the following sentence

Hi, 

Is the following sentence correct, please? Does it exist in English language? Please tell me what it means if it does. 

- Casting oil into fire is not the way to extinguish it. 

Thank you. 
  

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Laborious Is the following sentence correct, please? Yes. Laborious Does it exist in English language?

— Mister Micawber

  • Laborious Is the following sentence correct, please?
  • Yes.
  • Laborious Does it exist in English language?
  • Of course!
  • You just brought it into existence if it had not before.
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LaboriousIs the following sentence correct, please?
Yes.
LaboriousDoes it exist in English language?
Of course! You just brought it into existence if it had not before.
Laborious Please tell me what it means if it does.
It means that you cannot solve a problem by exacerbating it.
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Mister Micawberexacerbating
Would you kindly tell me how I should pronounce that word? --Since, perhaps, I had never encountered that before. I have just looked it up in my dictionary and it says it means to make something worse, but it doesn't tell me how I should pronounce it.

Thank you for your help, teacher.
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