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Vsuresh Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Once

Hi
Please tell me if this sentence is OK.

Read the lesson once and answers these questions.

My question is about the correctness of once here. Should it be replaced with one time?
  

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vsuresh Read the lesson once and answer s these questions. "answer" these questions. If it intended that the student base their answers on a single reading comprehension, then hopefully there would be some form of control exercised to enforce the practice.

— Wilpeter

  • vsuresh Read the lesson once and answer s these questions.
  • "answer" these questions.
  • If it intended that the student base their answers on a single reading comprehension, then hopefully there would be some form of control exercised to enforce the practice.
  • I would likely have preferred "once only" in that case.
  • Perhaps the lesson would be on a separate page to the questions.
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vsureshRead the lesson once and answers these questions.
"answer" these questions.
If it intended that the student base their answers on a single reading comprehension, then hopefully there would be some form of control exercised to enforce the practice. I would likely have preferred "once only" in that case. Perhaps the lesson would be on a s
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Thank you, Wilpeter.

I agree with you totally.

The second portion of the sentence - and answer these questions- was added just for more context.

One of my students asked if once needs to be replaced with one time in this sentence

Read the lesson once.

I was a little surprised hearing; I wanted to know what nati
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vsureshif once needs to be replaced with one time
No. You can make that replacement, but you don't have to. In this context they are equivalent.

CJ
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