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Jenny chiu Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Hurry! I need answers! Thanks!!

Here is a classified ad.

Apartment Manager
FT
2 yrs exp
free rent
paint and minor maintenance
available immediately

What does free rent? (Does it mean if you work as an apartment manger in this apartment, you can live there for free?)

What does minor maintenance really want to say?
  

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This is a free service offered by volunteers, Jenny. We are not here at your beck and call, and asking us to hurry is a sure way to have your post ignored.
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Sorry.
I used the wrong word.
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Jenny chiuWhat does free rent? (Does it mean if you work as an apartment manger in this apartment, you can live there for free?)
Right.
Jenny chiuWhat does minor maintenance really want to say?
Part of the manager's job is to make small repairs to apartments (replace electrical outlets, jiggle toilet handles, etc.)
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