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PreciousJones Posted 16 years ago
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I've been in
Please proofread this sentence for me.
I've been in Mississippi(for) a year and I'm really getting used to the slow pace lifestyle rather than the fast pace crowded life of New York.
Do I have to include (for)?
I've been in Mississippi(for) a year and I'm really getting used to the slow pace lifestyle rather than the fast pace crowded life of New York.
Do I have to include (for)?
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PreciousJones Please proofread this sentence for me. I've been in Mississippi (for) a year and I'm really getting used to the slow pace lifestyle rather than the fast pace crowded life of New York. Do I have to include (for) ?
- PreciousJones Please proofread this sentence for me.
- I've been in Mississippi (for) a year and I'm really getting used to the slow pace lifestyle rather than the fast pace crowded life of New York.
- Do I have to include (for) ?
- I do think you have to, at least in formal written English, because your first sentence is in present perfect tense, and the word for there is to show the duration of the subject being in the city.
- But for informal spoken English, i think you can omit the word for .
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PreciousJonesPlease proofread this sentence for me.
I've been in Mississippi(for) a year and I'm really getting used to the slow pace lifestyle rather than the fast pace crowded life of New York.
Do I have to include (for)?
I do think you have to, at least in formal written English, because your first sentence is in present
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