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Petergast Posted 8 years ago
Grammar
Trace , Track down
Hello everybody. I'd like to know if these two verbs are interchangeable, or if trace is more like a technical thing. For example, can I say "the stories that you traced for you book"?
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petergast can I say "the stories that you traced for you book"? No. That doesn't sound like anything a native speaker of English would say.
- petergast can I say "the stories that you traced for you book"?
- No.
- That doesn't sound like anything a native speaker of English would say.
- The following are more plausible.
- it to find examples of the usage of 'trace' and 'track down'.
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petergastcan I say "the stories that you traced for you book"?
No. That doesn't sound like anything a native speaker of English would say. The following are more plausible.
the stories that you collected / the stories that you researched / the stories that you found
Try fraze.it to find examples of the usage of 'trace' and 'track down'.
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