Questions tagged [repetition]
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Rules for repeating "to"
I often don't know whether I should repeat the "to". E.g.:
To enable the car to perform jumps between blocks or simply to go
faster, accelerator blocks can be placed, which as the name
indicates increase the car's speed.
vs.
To enable the car…
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When can I use the same intensifier twice to emphasize something?
Can I use the same intensifier twice to emphasize something? For example,
The test was extremely extremely difficult.
I know this works with very ("very very difficult") but not sure how it works with other intensifiers. Is there a rule somewhere?…
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Should I repeat "one" here?
I've started to describe a problem that way:
On my computer, I have two Angular projects:
the first is an Angular 14 one, linked to Java
Should I repeat one a second time?
the first one is an Angular 14 one, linked to Java
or simplify my…
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Can I use "something of something of something"?
Continuously using two of, like:
A fragment of a wheel of the car
A method of study of that student
Does this make any sense? Or does this look and sound bizarre?
Gabe Ebag
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How to not repeat "example" in this sentence
For example, in the previous example, an HTML element containing ``Search Results" can be used as an anchor.
How to say it so that "example" doesn't repeat?
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How to avoid the repetition of "of"?
I work in marketing and I often have to present results of analysis.
The problem is my sentences often contain a lots of "of" !
How can I avoid the repetition in this kind of sentence :
10 % of the customers of this brand are...
20% of the…
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avoiding repetition
I know it's correct to say:
"Talking of news, I have good news".
But being "news" an uncountable noun, I think that the sentence:
"Talking of news, I have a good one"
is incorrect. So, if I want to avoid repeating it, what should I use instead?
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repeating "your" in a list?
I'm a French native speaker and I would like to know if "your" should be repeated as in the following example:
I translate your document, your ad, your website.
Could we simply say:
I translate your document, ad and website.
What would be the…
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are these phrases correct?
I responded to five questions of my five colleagues, who arrived suddenly at my office then I solved two essentials crisis.
I was exhausted all the day at work, however, I don't feel that I realize something at all.
Amina
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Which of these sentences is grammatically correct?
People who commented before me did not notice.
People who commented before I did, did not notice.
The usage of two 'did's did not sound good to me, so I was confused.
Rishabh Pratik
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