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Sun 94 Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary
Sources
I wonder if ' sources' is correct word for the following sentence.
For your homework, look for information about the topic you have chosen and bring at least five different sources to next class.
For your homework, look for information about the topic you have chosen and bring at least five different sources to next class.
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That sounds perfect to me. 'Sources' is generally used in UK education to mean texts which contain something that relates to the topic being researched. Technically, the 'source' is where the information comes from, not the information itself, so this would mean that you should bring five whole books or people!
- That sounds perfect to me.
- 'Sources' is generally used in UK education to mean texts which contain something that relates to the topic being researched.
- Technically, the 'source' is where the information comes from, not the information itself, so this would mean that you should bring five whole books or people!
- But certainly in modern usage, 'source' can be used to mean any extract of text which has some bearing on the topic.
- If you wanted to be clearer, you could say 'bring extracts or printouts from at least five different sources'.
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That sounds perfect to me. 'Sources' is generally used in UK education to mean texts which contain something that relates to the topic being researched.
Technically, the 'source' is where the information comes from, not the information itself, so this would mean that you should bring five whole books or people! But certainly in modern usage, 'source' can be used to mean any extract of t
Technically, the 'source' is where the information comes from, not the information itself, so this would mean that you should bring five whole books or people! But certainly in modern usage, 'source' can be used to mean any extract of t
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