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Grammarian-bot Posted 19 years ago
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Correct idiomatic usage.

0 The time we are 01b01i00living 02i02b00is maybe one of the most facinating times^to study mobile phone industry.02br
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00Shouldn't the above sentence had 01i00living in02i00 instead of 01i00living02i00.02br
00I think living in is the correct idiomatic usage.02br
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00 Yes02br 00I think living in is the correct idiomatic usage. 02br 02br 01i 00I agree with your comment. I certainly don't think that studying this industry in, for example, Victorian times would have been at all fascinating.

— Clive

  • 00 Yes02br 00I think living in is the correct idiomatic usage.
  • 02br 02br 01i 00I agree with your comment.
  • I certainly don't think that studying this industry in, for example, Victorian times would have been at all fascinating.
  • 05002i 02br 02br 00Best wishes, Clive010id5
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0Hi,02br
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01font00The time we are 01b01i00living 02i02b00is maybe one of the most 01font00fascinating02font00 to study01font00 the 02font00mobile phone industry.02br
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00Shouldn't the above sentenc
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0 Also, instead of 01i00is maybe02i00, why not just 01i00may be02i00 (two words, no 01i00is02i00)? I think that would read better.02br
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00Mr. Gorbachev added, ''01b00The time we are living02b00 01font00in02font00 demands actions by the great powers, by the U.S. and the Sovie... October 11, 1986 World News 01b00...02b02td
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01cite10Clive12cite10It's not good style to repeat 'times'.12br
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11i10I agree with your comment. I certainly don't think that studying this industry 11b10in12b10, for example, Victorian times would have been at all fascinating. 15012i12br
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10Best wis
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0 Does this express it better?02br
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00"This may be one of the most fascinating times/periods in which to study the mobile phone industry"0-
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00don't you think that it will distort the structure of the sentence?12blockquote
10No. I wouldn't call such a small change a distortion of the structure.02br
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0 Hmm.. but as I read on the web (05000), may be is a verb that means 01i00is possible02i00. If we replece is possible with may be then it doesn't sound good.02br
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01i00The time we are living in is possible (may be) one of the most facinating to study the mobile phone industry.02br
02i00Can we apply this rule of sim
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0 Let's go over this in steps.02br
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00 1. 01i00is maybe02i00 is the same as 01i00maybe ... is02i00:02br
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01i00The pen on the table is maybe George's. = Maybe the pen on the table is George's.02br
00 That car is maybe too expensive
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0 GREAT GREAT GREAT explanation!!!02br
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00Thanks CJ.02br
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00GB0-
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0Hi again GB,02br
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01font00It's not good style to repeat 'times'.02font00 I meant that in your original sentence, you used both the word 'time' and the word 'times'.00 This kind of repetition is not good style.02br
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