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TeacherJapan Posted 9 years ago
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Skill or skills?

Could you tell me which is more natural, skill or skills?

The key to improving your writing skills/skill is to be exposed to a lot of writing.

  

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teacherJapan Could you tell me which is more natural, skill or skills? The key to improving your writing skills/skill is to be exposed to a lot of writing. In that context 'skills' is much more common.

  • teacherJapan Could you tell me which is more natural, skill or skills?
  • The key to improving your writing skills/skill is to be exposed to a lot of writing.
  • In that context 'skills' is much more common.
  • According to Google Ngrams, for every use of 'writing skill' there are 12 uses of 'writing skills'.
  • 'to expose yourself to' is better than 'to be exposed to'.
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teacherJapan

Could you tell me which is more natural, skill or skills?

The key to improving your writing skills/skill is to be exposed to a lot of writing.

In that context 'skills' is much more common. According to Google Ngrams, for every use of 'writing skill' there are 12 uses of 'writing skills'.


'to expose yourself to' is better

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