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Angliholic Posted 18 years ago
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the newspapers are full of advertisements/advertising
0 These days, the newspapers are full of advertisements/advertising for cell phones. 02 br
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00 Do both of advertisements and advertising fit in the above and mean about the same to you? If not, why not? Thanks. 0-
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00 Do both of advertisements and advertising fit in the above and mean about the same to you? If not, why not? Thanks. 0-
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0 I don't see a difference. 02 br
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00 If I had to choose then I would go for "advertisements" on aesthetic grounds. 0-
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00 If I had to choose then I would go for "advertisements" on aesthetic grounds. 0-
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00 But would you shed more light on the
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10 I don't see a difference. 12 br
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10 If I had to choose then I would go for "advertisements" 11 b 10 on aesthetic grounds. 12 b 12 br
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0 It's a weak preference -- and one that others may not agree with -- but "advertisements" just seemed a more direct way of saying what's meant. "Advertising" in this context refers to realisations of instances of the act of advertising, but since there's already a concrete noun that means exactly that we may as well use it. In addition, for some reason that I can't quite pin down, the word "adve
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