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Jackson6612 Posted 18 years ago
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I could have said that I had/have minimized the...

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00What do you mean by 01i00it02i00 where you said 01i00you might minimize it02i00. Bysaying 01i00temporary difficulties02i00, I am not minimizing the strong toneof 01i00trouble02i00, I am rather replacing it with the expression having asofter tone. If I had used, say, 01i00small trouble02i00 instead of01i00trouble02i00, then I could have said that I 01b00had/have02b00 minimized the strongtone of 01i00trouble02i00. 0-
  

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0 01pre 00 Hello! I'd write is simpler: If I had used, say, "small trouble", then I would have minimized the strong tone of "trouble". As for the way you want it to be: If I had used, say, "small trouble", instead of "trouble", then I could have said that I had minimized the strong tone of "trouble".

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  • 0 01pre 00 Hello!
  • I'd write is simpler: If I had used, say, "small trouble", then I would have minimized the strong tone of "trouble".
  • As for the way you want it to be: If I had used, say, "small trouble", instead of "trouble", then I could have said that I had minimized the strong tone of "trouble".
  • BTW, I don't see any significant contrast between 1.
  • Minimizing the stong tone of "trouble", 2.
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00  Hello!      I'd write is simpler:      If I had  used,  say,  "small  trouble",  then  I  would  have    minimized the strong tone of "trouble".      As for the way you want it to be:      If I had used, say, "small  trouble",  instead  of  "trouble",    then I could have said that I had minimized the strong tone of    "trouble".      BTW, I don't see any significant cont
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10P.S.: Don't use double aposrophe for quotation mark.12pre
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20P.S.: Don't use double aposrophe for quotation mark.22pre
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0 I mean one should not emulate double marks with 01i00two02i00 apostrophes... 0-
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