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Soheil1 Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

Tend to

Hi.
What's meant by 'tend to' in:
"Beginning chess players tend to want to checkmate their opponents as quickly as possible."

have a tendency to want to means simply want to, doesn't it
  

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Tend to want = usually/often want

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  • Tend to want = usually/often want
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Tend to want = usually/often want
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I suspect that when we say that "they tend to do somthing" we can say "they usually do somthing", am I right?
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Is
"Very young girls with conduct problems, compared with those without such problems, tend to have higher scores on measures of intelligence (http://focus.psychiatryonline.org/article.aspx?Volume=2&page=558&journalID=21#*****-and-Leve-1998;
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What about
"interventions addressing multiple needs from multiple domains tend to be more successful."?

I should thank you for your previous replies and for the next one!
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Yes and yes: cases in point.
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"Tend to" is synonymous with "are inclined to".

BillJ
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What about
"While fluorescent lightbulbs and LED lights are much more energy-efficient than incandescent lights, they also tend to produce more blue light."?

May I replace 'tend to' with 'usually'?

Thanks in advance
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soheil1What about"While fluorescent lightbulbs and LED lights are much more energy-efficient than incandescent lights, they also tend to produce more blue light."?May I replace 'tend to' with 'usually'?
Yes, you can; also "frequently" fits well too with very little change in meaning

But if you want to replace it with an expression of the same category
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