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Magic79 Posted 18 years ago
Grammar
Go to many places vs. go many places
Hello!
Any differences between the following:
a. He went to many places.
b. He went many places.
c. This is a nice place to live in.
d. This is a nice place to live.
And how about this sentence structure?
- He claimed qualified and yet could not answer a single question.
Thanks!
Any differences between the following:
a. He went to many places.
b. He went many places.
c. This is a nice place to live in.
d. This is a nice place to live.
And how about this sentence structure?
- He claimed qualified and yet could not answer a single question.
Thanks!
Top answer
A, b, c and d are all in use, and the pairs are synonymous. Your other sentence must be changed to read: He claimed to be qualified and yet could not answer a single question.
- A, b, c and d are all in use, and the pairs are synonymous.
- Your other sentence must be changed to read: He claimed to be qualified and yet could not answer a single question.
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A, b, c and d are all in use, and the pairs are synonymous.
Your other sentence must be changed to read: He claimed to be qualified and yet could not answer a single question.
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A, b, c and d are all in use, and the pairs are synonymous.
Your other sentence must be changed to read: He claimed to be qualified and yet could not answer a single question.
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Thanks Mickawber.
Is there any free online corpus that can help in finding more examples of those structures?
Linguists sometimes do find differneces in what might seem an exact match. For example, if a linguist studies those two structures using corpus linguistics, he/she might find out that formal contexts are more likely to exclude the prepositions "to" and "in' after "go" and "live"
Is there any free online corpus that can help in finding more examples of those structures?
Linguists sometimes do find differneces in what might seem an exact match. For example, if a linguist studies those two structures using corpus linguistics, he/she might find out that formal contexts are more likely to exclude the prepositions "to" and "in' after "go" and "live"
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I don't know quite what you are looking for or how you wish to manipulate it, but these free corpuses are the ones I go to on occasion:
http://www.lextutor.ca/concordancers/
http://www.americ
I don't know quite what you are looking for or how you wish to manipulate it, but these free corpuses are the ones I go to on occasion:
http://www.lextutor.ca/concordancers/
http://www.americ
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Thanks for the links. Much appreciated. They help in checking some specific word combination or some structures. Thanks.
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