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Vocabulary

Stink and smell

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Is it correct to use the words 'smell' (verb) and 'stink' (verb) in the following ways:
1. It stinks of rotten eggs in here.
2. It stinks rotten eggs in here.
3. It stinks like rotten eggs in here.
4. This place stinks with rotten eggs.

5. It smells of rotten eggs in here.
6. It smells rotten eggs in here.
7. It smells like rotten eggs in here.
8. This place smells with rotten eggs.

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Is it correct to use the words 'smell' (verb) and 'stink' (verb) in the following ways: 1. It stinks of rotten eggs in here. 2.

  • Is it correct to use the words 'smell' (verb) and 'stink' (verb) in the following ways: 1.
  • It stinks of rotten eggs in here.
  • 2.
  • It stinks rotten eggs in here.
  • 3.
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Is it correct to use the words 'smell' (verb) and 'stink' (verb) in the following ways:
1. It stinks of rotten eggs in here.
2. It stinks rotten eggs in here.
3. It stinks like rotten eggs in here. --I think people say this, although sentence 1 is more correct.
4. This place stinks with

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