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Chikchik Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

sense

What is meant by the underlined part below
Forced in the sense of being pressed to do something
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chikchik What is meant by the underlined part below Forced in the sense of being pressed to do something It doesn't mean anything because you have grouped the words incorrectly. ) being pressed is the passive of pressing . Pressing is putting pressure upon something or someone.

  • chikchik What is meant by the underlined part below Forced in the sense of being pressed to do something It doesn't mean anything because you have grouped the words incorrectly.
  • ) being pressed is the passive of pressing .
  • Pressing is putting pressure upon something or someone.
  • Something or someone being pressed is experiencing pressure applied by someone or something else.
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chikchikWhat is meant by the underlined part below
Forced in the sense of being pressed to do something
It doesn't mean anything because you have grouped the words incorrectly.

(in the sense of) (being pressed ...)

being pressed is the passive of pressing. Pressing is putting pressure upon something or someone
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Look at the underlined sentence below
He should, in particular, command a general acceptability
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in the sense of ~ with the meaning of ~ taking the meaning of it as ~ when you define it as

When you look in a dictionary, you see several different definitions of the same word. Each of these definitions is called "a sense of the word". Each definition shows us one sense of the word. That's how "sense" is used above.

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SO please calif jim sir could you explain what it means in the above sentence.
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