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1688328 Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

Timely advance

does someone give idea, is the following sentence correct?



1.When Ipod touch has been popular among his friend, timely advance he replaced his old MP3 with one that is handy and convenient.



  

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Hi, does someone give idea, is the following sentence correct? When Ipod touch has been popular among his friend, timely advance he replaced his old MP3 with one that is handy and convenient. The whole sentence, not just the red part, has problems.

  • Hi, does someone give idea, is the following sentence correct?
  • When Ipod touch has been popular among his friend, timely advance he replaced his old MP3 with one that is handy and convenient.
  • The whole sentence, not just the red part, has problems.
  • I have to start guessing about your meaning.
  • Can you try to say it again, possibly using two simpler sentences?
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Hi,

does someone give idea, is the following sentence correct?

1.When Ipod touch has been popular among his friend, timely advance he replaced his old MP3 with one that is handy and convenient.

The whole sentence, not just the red part, has problems. I have to start guessing about your meaning.

Can you try to say it again, possibly using two simpler sentences?
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The phrase is completely unknown to me.

When iPod Touch became popular with his friends, he replaced his old MP3 with one that is handier and more convenient.
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No sorry it doesn't work on many levels. How many friends are there? When the Ipod touch became popular among his friends.

Timely advance should just be deleted from the sentence. Are you trying to write a sentence with timely advance in it?

The battalion led the army to a timely advance.
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when Ipod Touch has been popular among his friend, he want to buy the one.

i want to express that he is a person, like following the fashion.
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yes, it is,

can i put this phrase in front of "he"?

thanks
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When iPod Touch became popular among his friends, he wanted to buy one. Or When iPod Touch became popular among his friends, he felt a need to buy one.

The second makes his want to buy one stronger.
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can i use ' timely advance' in following sentence, thank you!

When the decay of morality has reached such stage where it is glorious to update your wife and to keep concubines, timely advance he replaced his old wife with one that is younger and pretty,
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Hi,

can i use ' timely advance' in following sentence, thank you!

When the decay of morality has reached such stage where it is glorious to update your wife and to keep concubines, timely advance he replaced his old wife with one that is younger and pretty,


This phrase 'timely advance' is meaningless to me. Have you invented it? Did you read it somewhere? Can
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Hi,

1. to be divorced from your wife and to keep concubines.

2. To change your wife and …..



Because it is currently popular, so I used ‘present perfect’.

Is correct using ‘he replaced’ transfer ‘ he replaces’,



i want to use ‘timely advance’ to criticize that stage, and to quip him.





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Hello, 1688328. Your source of idioms and vocabulary is not mainstream English, to say the least. It has already been explained to you that (X)'timely advance' and (X)'update your wife' are not recognizable idioms. (X)'Timely advance' does not even fit into the grammar of any of the sentences you have presented or suggested. I will go on to say that (X)'quip' makes

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