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Clee102 Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

What is an appropriate noun for describing how often something takes place?

Hello, good people of EnglishForward! I am looking for an appropriate English noun that describes how often something happens. For example, World Cup takes place every four years. Assuming I did not know about it and wanted to ask someone how often World Cup takes place, how should I phrase my question? I mean, I could just say "How often does World Cup take place?" but what if I wanted to say "What is the 'the appropriate noun I'm looking for' of World Cup?" Does 'period' work here? Any suggestions or is there any word spoken commonly by people?
  

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frequency With what frequency does the World Cup take place? There is no word for the blank you give in your example. What is the ____ of the World Cup?

  • frequency With what frequency does the World Cup take place?
  • There is no word for the blank you give in your example.
  • What is the ____ of the World Cup?
  • If you said frequency , it would be understood in that blank, but it's not idiomatic English.
  • periodicity is so abstract and scientific that it would cause laughter in that blank, even though it fits in meaning.
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frequency

With what frequency does the World Cup take place?

There is no word for the blank you give in your example.

What is the ____ of the World Cup?

If you said frequency, it would be understood in that blank, but it's not idiomatic English.

periodicity is so abstract and scientific that it would caus
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Thank you for your kind reply, CalifJim

I guess the reason why I'm asking this is probably because I'm not a native English speaker.

In fact, I'm Korean and I well know the way Korean is spoken is certainly and almost completely different from the way English is spoken.

I've spoken English for about a decade but even so, since it isn't my mother language, I don't have "f
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clee102I don't have "feeling" of what sounds natural if you know what I mean.
I do know what you mean. I find the same when I speak another language.
clee102It is just out of mere curiosity to see if there exists such a word that fits into that sentence.
Ah. OK.
clee102Thanks again for your help, ki
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CalifJimYou're welcome, and "Jim" is a man's name, by the way!
Well... obviously.. haha.

But I believe nicknames / ID's / code names / user names or whatever that are used online to call one selves do not necessarily reflect their gender. (by the way, do I say 'gender' or 'genders' here?)

You know.. it could be possible that there's th

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