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Hi there,Could you please check for me if I have made any mistakes in these sentences?I don't like it, but I tolerate it. (Still)I don't like it, but I tolerated it. (Past) (Both ways are correct, depending the situation?)I have a faculty / capacity to conquer it. (Both mean ability, they are sharing the same meaning)I have never been to arctic as it has never appealed to me. (Mean attracts, do you guys really use this word in the daily conversation?)It lost it's appeal. (Attraction) Do you guys really use this word in the daily conversation?Cheers

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I don't like it, but I tolerate it. OK. (Still) Why "still"? What are you saying by writing "still"?
I ~~don't~~ didn't like it, but I tolerated it. (Past) Yes. With "didn't" it's past. (Both ways are correct, depending the situation? You only wrote one way. What do you mean by "both ways"?)
I have a the ~~faculty /~~ capacity to conquer it. (Both mean ability, they are sharing the same meaning) I don't think anybody would say "faculty" there.
faculty: An inherent mental or physical power. Often in the plural ("faculties").
He was getting old, but his faculties remained sharp.
Did William still have all his faculties after the accident?
It is through our physical and mental faculties that we relate to our surroundings.
(In 95% of the uses of "faculty", the meaning is "the teaching staff of a school, college, or university", which has nothing to do with the meaning you're interested in here.)
I have never been to the arctic as it has never appealed to me. Correct (with 'the'). (Mean attracts, do you guys really use this word in the daily conversation? Not often, but yes, we use it in conversation.)
It lost ~~it's~~ its appeal. Fine as corrected. (Attraction) Do you guys really use this word in ~~the~~ daily conversation? Yes.
It didn't appeal to me. ~ I didn't think I would like it.
appeal is related to the French verb appeler ("to call"). So it's like saying "It wasn't calling to me", but of course we would never say it like that in English.

CJ

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