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Jenny chiu Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

cover

I can cover you if you cheat the test.

Can I use "cover"?
Do you know any other words?
  

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Jenny chiu I can cover you if you cheat the test. Probably cover for you... on the test.

  • Jenny chiu I can cover you if you cheat the test.
  • Probably cover for you...
  • on the test.
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Jenny chiuI can cover you if you cheat the test.
Probably cover for you...on the test.
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Hi,

To cover for someone means roughly 'help them to do something wrong, by some kind of pretense.
eg Tom is absent from class. When the teacher calls Tom's name, I answer 'here' from the back of the class so that the teacher thinks that Tom is not absent.

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