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MUSCOVITE Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary
current, ongoing, what else
Hi,
"If you have any current questions, please contact..."
(1) Are 'current' and 'ongoing' fully interchangeable in contexts such as this sentence? Maybe there is some subtle difference between 'current'-'ongoing' in this context?
(2) Are there other words that can be used for 'current' or 'ongoing' in this sentence? (with the same meaning of course, collocations such as "urgent/important/etc.etc. questions" can be discarded at once :-)
Thank you!
mus-te
"If you have any current questions, please contact..."
(1) Are 'current' and 'ongoing' fully interchangeable in contexts such as this sentence? Maybe there is some subtle difference between 'current'-'ongoing' in this context?
(2) Are there other words that can be used for 'current' or 'ongoing' in this sentence? (with the same meaning of course, collocations such as "urgent/important/etc.etc. questions" can be discarded at once :-)
Thank you!
mus-te
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I can't make sense of either "current" or "ongoing" there. Maybe you mean "any further questions"?
- I can't make sense of either "current" or "ongoing" there.
- Maybe you mean "any further questions"?
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I can't make sense of either "current" or "ongoing" there. Maybe you mean "any further questions"?
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enoonI can't make sense of either "current" or "ongoing" thereI see. I thought that "current" collocates with "questions" exactly as it does with "issues" or"problems" :-)
I guess it would be perfectly ok to say, "Current issues/problems..."?
Anyway, how to express this idea in English, "questions relating/related to the present situation/st
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I'm not sure what you want to say. I think I need more context. It seems to me that if I have a question, it can be nothing other than current as far as I am concerned. Maybe, "If you have any questions on this matter".
MUSCOVITEI guess it would be perfectly ok to say, "Current issues/problems..."?It depends on the context, both the situation and the sentence t
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Thank you enoon!
Finally, just to recap - although "current questions" sounds just fine in my native language (if translated word for word), it does not make sense in English (as you have just explained to me)
enoon"If you have any questions on this matter"Yes, this appears closest to what I was looking for.
Finally, just to recap - although "current questions" sounds just fine in my native language (if translated word for word), it does not make sense in English (as you have just explained to me)
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"Current questions" is unremarkable in the right context. You can't ask if anybody has any current questions, but you can say that the current questions in Strasbourg center on the extent to which the UK will participate in any future EU efforts.
This particular problem is not a matter of collocation but of sense. Anyway, a collocation dictionary would be impossible to write. It would amo
This particular problem is not a matter of collocation but of sense. Anyway, a collocation dictionary would be impossible to write. It would amo
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