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Dileepa Posted 6 years ago
Grammar

Meaning of practice

When I was writing an essay about parents providing their children with an excessive number of toys, I wrote the following sentence. The main reason that I didn't used trend here was that I've already used that in the above of the essay. Therefore, I would really appreciate it if someone could let me know whether it is feasible to use the word - practice - to indicate the trend that parent purchasing more than necessary playthings for their offspring.


To begin with, there are some benefits of this practice.

  

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dileepa there are some benefits to this practice This is OK as amended, though "practice" means "behaviour" or "way of doing something". It does not specifically mean "trend". I guess you probably already know this.

  • dileepa there are some benefits to this practice This is OK as amended, though "practice" means "behaviour" or "way of doing something".
  • It does not specifically mean "trend".
  • I guess you probably already know this.
  • Does "To begin with" mean that there are initially benefits, but these diminish over time?
  • )
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dileepathere are some benefits to this practice

This is OK as amended, though "practice" means "behaviour" or "way of doing something". It does not specifically mean "trend". I guess you probably already know this.

Does "To begin with" mean that there are initially benefits, but these diminish over time? (I d

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dileepaI didn't used use

After auxiliary do (do, does, did) you must use the plain form of the verb.

CJ

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