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Moon7296 Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary
precisely because/ just because
Precisely because television is so easy to watch, it seems to resist our efforts to analyze it critically.
Q) Is just replaceable with "precisely?"
Q) Is just replaceable with "precisely?"
Top answer
Yes, I think.
- Yes, I think.
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No.
Here's the basic idea.
Precisely because - Exactly because
Just because - Merely because
Clive
Here's the basic idea.
Precisely because - Exactly because
Just because - Merely because
Clive
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But Clive, your basic idea is closer to answer "yes" rather than "no".
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The question was this.
Q) Is just replaceable with "precisely?"
I take 'replaceable' to mean 'with the same meaning'.
This is why I said 'No'.
Clive
Q) Is just replaceable with "precisely?"
I take 'replaceable' to mean 'with the same meaning'.
This is why I said 'No'.
Clive
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Precisely (=Exactly) here refers to the sole and most important reason for happening the event so that, only that reason has been the cause of that event and without that reason the event could not be happened. To me, it is equivalent to "just".
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Just can mean “precisely” in some contexts, such as That’s just what I wanted, but in just + because phrase "simply/only" is the idiomatic interpretation.
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