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What does "upon" mean? Can I delete it in the below?
"Upon hearing the news of the defeat, the football coach promptly resigned."
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Tara2 What does "upon" mean? Can I delete it in the below? " You can't say "the below".
- Tara2 What does "upon" mean?
- Can I delete it in the below?
- " You can't say "the below".
- You could delete "upon", but it loses something.
- " Although nobody says or writes that, it still makes a sour note when you leave the subject out, so it is better to write it another way.
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Tara2What does "upon" mean? Can I delete it in the below?
"Upon hearing the news of the defeat, the football coach promptly resigned."
You can't say "the below". You could delete "upon", but it loses something. Also, there are those, me included, who think you need a subject in a prepositional clause like the resultant one: "He hearing the news
0upon stresses that he resigned immediately.
So does promptly, so I would say one or the other, but not both.
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