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Anonymous Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

Every so often

hi everybody. dictionaries say that means "sometimes, but not frequently". ok, but why "often" if that's not on a regular basis? i think i can't say that i play tennis every so often if a play tennis once a week, so it's not "often", if you know what i mean. is there a contradiction or am i missing something?

  

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First of all, you need to attend to capitalisation. Every sentence must begin with a capital letter. The word "I" is always capitalised, wherever it appears.

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  • First of all, you need to attend to capitalisation.
  • Every sentence must begin with a capital letter.
  • The word "I" is always capitalised, wherever it appears.
  • "i" is always wrong.
  • Once a week seems too frequent for "every so often", as you suggest.
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First of all, you need to attend to capitalisation. Every sentence must begin with a capital letter. The word "I" is always capitalised, wherever it appears. "i" is always wrong.

Once a week seems too frequent for "every so often", as you suggest. Once every couple of months would qualify. "every so

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i like writing like that and really don't care about that kind of mistake, but thank you so much for the answer

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i think "people whose opinion matters" (quite a subjective matter) really don't care about that. i think if hemingway or chesterton were alive reading my post (although their writing follows these rules) they would care less about that than you do.

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sorry, i'll keep posting here and i am sure people will continue to help me. i don't think this forum is that boring, square thing that you're suggesting. i'm not interested in english for business, i felt in love with it and i'm here to discover it's secrets, not to be told that i'm uneducated or that my writing is childish, which is the only reason why i answered that way.

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i'm humble and could accept any kind of criticism, but not this. i'm not saying i'm correct, i'm saying it's ridiculously unimportant for my purposes. but ok, you win, i'm not going to post here anymore and take the risk of bothering so serious and erudite people. i'll look for a place where i can make my own mistakes if i want, if i think there's beauty in the mistake, because sometimes there

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