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Fireflysaigon Posted 15 years ago
Grammar
Necessarily & certainly
In Britain, the average young person now spends more money on games each year than on going to the cinema or renting videos. But is this……..……a bad thing?
A. necessarily B. certainly C. fully D. nearly
The option is “A. necessarily” whereas my option is “B. certainly”. My question is “what “necessarily” mean here? Thanks in advance.
A. necessarily B. certainly C. fully D. nearly
The option is “A. necessarily” whereas my option is “B. certainly”. My question is “what “necessarily” mean here? Thanks in advance.
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' = Does this have to be considered a bad thing? Might it not be a good thing? Again.
- ' = Does this have to be considered a bad thing?
- Might it not be a good thing?
- Again.
- 'certainly' is just the wrong collocational word choice here.
- e.
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'Is this necessarily a bad thing?' = Does this have to be considered a bad thing? Might it not be a good thing? Again. 'certainly' is just the wrong collocational word choice here. All 4 words work grammatically; in vocabulary questions, you must choose the best word, i.e. the word most usually/naturally/idiomatically/colloquially collocated.
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