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Lucas21c Posted 11 years ago
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Is the following sentence right and natural?

Water freezes at zero degrees Celsius and boils at one hundred.
  

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lucas21c Water freezes at zero degrees degrees Celsius and boils at one hundred. Why "degrees" twice? You need to remove one of them.

— CalifJim

  • lucas21c Water freezes at zero degrees degrees Celsius and boils at one hundred.
  • Why "degrees" twice?
  • You need to remove one of them.
  • Water freezes at zero degrees Celsius and boils at one hundred.
  • Now it's fine.
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lucas21cWater freezes at zero degrees degrees Celsius and boils at one hundred.
Why "degrees" twice? You need to remove one of them.

Water freezes at zero degrees Celsius and boils at one hundred.

Now it's fine.

CJ
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