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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
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Should I use "Those are" instead of "That's"?

Ron Paul is a libertarian, a strict constitutionalists and a defender of freedom. That's the polar opposite of Gingrich.
  

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Ron Paul is a libertarian, a strict constitutionalists and a defender of freedom. He is the opposite of Newt Gingrich. If someone is the opposite of someone else, then adjectives such as "polar", "total", "complete" are redundant (able to be omitted without loss of meaning or function).

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  • Ron Paul is a libertarian, a strict constitutionalists and a defender of freedom.
  • He is the opposite of Newt Gingrich.
  • If someone is the opposite of someone else, then adjectives such as "polar", "total", "complete" are redundant (able to be omitted without loss of meaning or function).
  • You can't get more opposite than opposite.
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Ron Paul is a libertarian, a strict constitutionalists and a defender of freedom. He is the opposite of Newt Gingrich.

If someone is the opposite of someone else, then adjectives such as "polar", "total", "complete" are redundant (able to be omitted without loss of meaning or function). You can't get more opposite than opposite.
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Hi. Please help. I happen to think we can use both phrases "on it" and "on them" for the underlined part. I think when we use "on it," we mean for the most part the act of making mistakes, and when we use "on them" we focus on the mistakes.
What do you think? Can we use both of them?

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You are still making a lot of mistakes. You should work on it. Or You shou
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