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Marian Nedelcu Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

not to mention

Does the following phrase make sense?

She wears colorful dresses, not to mention loose dresses.
  

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Yes, but you need a reason to use "not to mention". The second part should reinforce the first part. "

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  • Yes, but you need a reason to use "not to mention".
  • The second part should reinforce the first part.
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Yes, but you need a reason to use "not to mention". The second part should reinforce the first part. "She wears short skirts, not to mention tight ones."
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Marian NedelcuDoes the following phrase make sense?
Not really. The two points need to be related in intensity, magnitude, nature, etc:

She wears colorful dresses, not to mention her fluorescent shoes.
Linguistics in Chinese is hard for us, not to mention that in English.
He's good at math, not to mention the fact that he lik
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