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Tenacious Learner Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Could you correct this explanation?

Hi teachers,
Could you correct this explanation?
One of the uses of the indefinite adverb of time already is to emphasize actions that have occurred between an indefinite period of time in the past and now, as the following exercise shows.

Thanks in advance.
  

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Thinking Spain One of the uses of the indefinite adverb of time already is to emphasize actions that have occurred between an indefinite period of time in the past and now Hi TS, like my comment concerning the definition of yet , also with already the terminal point in time doesn't need to be "now". Collin's Dictionary defines already as "by or before the given or implied time ". " Thinking Spain as the following exercise shows.

— Shawn79

  • Thinking Spain One of the uses of the indefinite adverb of time already is to emphasize actions that have occurred between an indefinite period of time in the past and now Hi TS, like my comment concerning the definition of yet , also with already the terminal point in time doesn't need to be "now".
  • Collin's Dictionary defines already as "by or before the given or implied time ".
  • " Thinking Spain as the following exercise shows.
  • I don't see any exercise that follows.
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Thinking SpainOne of the uses of the indefinite adverb of time already is to emphasize actions that have occurred between an indefinite period of time in the past and now
Hi TS, like my comment concerning the definition of yet, also with already the terminal point in time doesn't need to be "now". Collin's Dictionary defines alrea
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Shawn79Collin's Dictionary defines already as "by or before the given or implied time".
Hi Shawn,
Thanks for your reply. I thought in short was 'before now'. but after seeing the definition, "given or implied time"; I realized that I was wrong. Though the same dictionary consider 'before now' a synonym.
Shawn79I don't see any
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