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Soheil1 Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

Grow up

Hi.
Have I used grow up correctly in:
In a stretch of Qajar time, during the time of Muhammad Shah, the power of mystics and Sufis grew up

?Thanks in advance
  

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No. Power can grow, but not grow up.

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No. Power can grow, but not grow up.
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Otherwise the sentence is correct?
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I would avoid "stretch of time"; that's stretching it. "period of time" is better.
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What about
the power of mystics and sufis expanded because of the personal interest of the king to sufi teachings
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why?
AlpheccaStarsI would avoid "stretch of time"; that's stretching it. "period of time" is better.
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The power of mystics and Sufis expanded because of the personal interest of the king in Sufi teachings.
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Stretch of time is used for indefinite time periods, where the beginnings and endings are unknown. When we talk about recorded history, we usually know the beginning / ending dates fairly well..

For many long stretches of time in its 4 billion year history, the earth was much warmer than today.
For long stretches of time during his childhood, he remembers being neglected by h
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As we know, a genitive can be formed in two ways.

Why have you used the of-construction? Just because interest is not a part of body? Cannot we use the apostrophe construction?
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soheil1As we know, a genitive can be formed in two ways.Why have you used the of-construction? Just because interest is not a part of body? Cannot we use the apostrophe construction?
I used it because you did so in your original post. If phrases in a post are grammatically correct, I do not change them.
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