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Anduy Posted 18 years ago
Vocabulary

start/appear

0 A surprising number of popular spectator sports, for example football or baseball, 01b00started02b00 in Europe or the USA in the nineteenth century.02br
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00Can we use 01i00appeared02i00 instead of 01i00started02i00?02br
00Both of them mean "began to exist" but my book indicates that 01i00started02i00 is the only acceptable word here.02br
00I think it's because 01i00start02i00 is used for sports but I'm not sure.02br
00Please explain.0-
  

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0 Perhaps 01b 00originated02b 00 is the word you want. 0-

  • 0 Perhaps 01b 00originated02b 00 is the word you want.
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0 Perhaps 01b00originated02b00 is the word you want. 0-
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01cite10Philip12cite10Perhaps 11b10originated12b10 is the word you want.12br
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10Thank you for your trying to help.02br
00I mean we have only two choices here: appeared or started 0-
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0 To appear - to become visible, to show, to manifest (itself).02br
00Not quite the same as to start. 0-

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