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T509 Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

Eventually

0Can I use 'eventually' with verbs like 'be' as follows?02br
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001. Eventually Latin 01i00was02i00 the language of various fields for more than a thousand years.02br
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00Originally '01i00became02i00' is used for the '01i00was.'02i02br
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0Hi T509,02br 02br 00Eventually implies a rather lengthy process in which something or someone had to go through a rough journey to finally achieve the objective. In your context, it's not idiomatically correct. 02br 02br 00He tried to get his drivers license for many years and failed each time because of his lack of English..

— Goodman

  • 0Hi T509,02br 02br 00Eventually implies a rather lengthy process in which something or someone had to go through a rough journey to finally achieve the objective.
  • In your context, it's not idiomatically correct.
  • 02br 02br 00He tried to get his drivers license for many years and failed each time because of his lack of English..
  • Last year he went to an adult evening course to improve is English.
  • Eventually he passed the driving test.
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0Hi T509,02br
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00Eventually implies a rather lengthy process in which something or someone had to go through a rough journey to finally achieve the objective. In your context, it's not idiomatically correct. 02br
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00He tried to get his drivers license for many years and failed each time because of his lack of English.. Last year he went to an adult
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01i00 eventually=after all that fuss, after all those problems, after many problems, finally02i02br
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00 Goodman is right, IMO: the original sentence was better. 02br
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I don't agree with other posters that became is better than was in the original sentence. Neither work in this sentence because it's trying to say two things at once. Latin became the language in use in various fields and then it stayed in use for more than a thousand years, The verb become here did not take place for over a thousand years, which is what the first senten

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