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Does "than currently prevails" refer to "than the model that prevails currently"?

Forums: English, Esl, Grammar, English As A Second Language

Question by oristarA
Posted 11/03/15 10:39 AM

Replies: 3
Views: 585

Last Post by dalehileman
on 11/03/15 2:28 PM

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what disables and kills people across countries, time, age, and sex?

Forums: English, Esl, Grammar, English As A Second Language

Question by oristarA
Posted 10/28/15 9:07 PM

Replies: 5
Views: 662

Last Post by puzzledperson
on 11/03/15 5:29 AM

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Failed to get "theirs" - does it refer to "the duty of theirs/the soldiers"?

Forums: English, Esl, Grammar, English As A Second Language

Question by oristarA
Posted 10/30/15 11:42 AM

Replies: 10
Views: 602

Last Post by layman
on 11/02/15 1:32 AM

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Does "Western students of the Orient" mean "Western students who study/research the Orient"?

Forums: English, Esl, Grammar, English As A Second Language

Question by oristarA
Posted 11/01/15 10:35 AM

Replies: 4
Views: 385

Last Post by oristarA
on 11/01/15 11:58 PM

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Does "the buildup to the Iraq War" refer to "the accumulation of forces that leads to Iraq war"?

Forums: English, Esl, Grammar, English As A Second Language

Question by oristarA
Posted 11/01/15 9:47 AM

Replies: 3
Views: 425

Last Post by InfraBlue
on 11/01/15 11:35 PM

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Does "they" here refer to "targets"?

Forums: English, Esl, Grammar, English As A Second Language

Question by oristarA
Posted 11/01/15 10:25 AM

Replies: 1
Views: 383

Last Post by InfraBlue
on 11/01/15 10:29 PM

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Does "passing as" mean "pretending to be"?

Forums: English, Esl, Grammar, English As A Second Language

Question by oristarA
Posted 11/01/15 10:40 AM

Replies: 3
Views: 552

Last Post by dalehileman
on 11/01/15 1:11 PM

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Does "Compounding the mystery" mean "making the mystery more mysterious"?

Forums: English, Esl, Grammar, English Grammar, English As A Second Language

Question by oristarA
Posted 11/01/15 3:50 AM

Replies: 1
Views: 617

Last Post by Setanta
on 11/01/15 4:44 AM

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retain enough of a purchase on reality?

Forums: English, Esl, Grammar, English As A Second Language

Question by oristarA
Posted 10/31/15 6:23 AM

Replies: 3
Views: 492

Last Post by dalehileman
on 10/31/15 12:57 PM

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Does "fluctuations at some scales" refer to "fluctuations at some amplitudes"?

Forums: English, Esl, Grammar, English As A Second Language

Question by oristarA
Posted 10/30/15 10:26 PM

Replies: 3
Views: 383

Last Post by dalehileman
on 10/31/15 12:56 PM

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Does "he can't say that about" refer to "he can't have such good judgement"?

Forums: English, Esl, Grammar, English As A Second Language

Question by oristarA
Posted 10/30/15 8:40 AM

Replies: 16
Views: 755

Last Post by InfraBlue
on 10/30/15 12:38 PM

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Does "looks like nothing so much as" mean "looks almost exactly as"?

Forums: English, Esl, Grammar, English As A Second Language

Question by oristarA
Posted 10/30/15 5:47 AM

Replies: 5
Views: 2,218

Last Post by oristarA
on 10/30/15 9:30 AM

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What does "pack structure" mean?

Forums: English, Esl, Grammar, English As A Second Language

Question by oristarA
Posted 10/27/15 8:23 PM

Replies: 3
Views: 583

Last Post by layman
on 10/29/15 6:07 PM

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"a $1.4 billion gap" read as "a 1.4 billion dollar gap"? Or "a 1.4 billion dollars gap"?

Forums: English, Esl, Grammar, English As A Second Language

Question by oristarA
Posted 10/29/15 5:10 PM

Replies: 2
Views: 489

Last Post by layman
on 10/29/15 5:23 PM

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Does "get it out into the world" mean "carry it out/practice it in reality"?

Forums: English, Esl, Grammar, English As A Second Language

Question by oristarA
Posted 10/28/15 10:45 AM

Replies: 7
Views: 416

Last Post by ehBeth
on 10/29/15 3:26 PM

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Does "a shock to the system" mean "a shock to the system of my body"?

Forums: English, Esl, Grammar, English As A Second Language

Question by oristarA
Posted 10/28/15 6:05 PM

Replies: 3
Views: 474

Last Post by InfraBlue
on 10/28/15 9:54 PM

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Do you think the collocation of "substantial stride" sounds native?

Forums: English, Grammar, Efl, Esl, English Grammar

Question by oristarA
Posted 10/26/15 9:39 AM

Replies: 8
Views: 2,137

Last Post by najmelliw
on 10/26/15 2:46 PM

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Does "than is warranted" mean "than one deserves"?

Forums: English, Esl, Grammar, English As A Second Language

Question by oristarA
Posted 10/25/15 8:10 PM

Replies: 1
Views: 465

Last Post by layman
on 10/25/15 8:17 PM

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Does "This source of feeling" refer to "the aspiration"?

Forums: English, Esl, Grammar, English As A Second Language

Question by oristarA
Posted 10/22/15 3:07 AM

Replies: 16
Views: 795

Last Post by McTag
on 10/25/15 4:21 AM

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Should "evolved into goes a step further" be "evolved into going a step further"?

Forums: English, Esl, Grammar, English As A Second Language

Question by oristarA
Posted 10/22/15 10:07 AM

Replies: 11
Views: 618

Last Post by oristarA
on 10/22/15 8:24 PM

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Does "to be brought off" mean "so that the crimes can be carried out/brought off"?

Forums: English, Esl, Grammar, English As A Second Language

Question by oristarA
Posted 10/21/15 8:05 PM

Replies: 5
Views: 645

Last Post by dlowan
on 10/22/15 4:39 PM

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requires that the perpetrator of a crime suffer or forfeit his life?

Forums: English, Esl, Grammar, English As A Second Language

Question by oristarA
Posted 10/22/15 8:45 AM

Replies: 3
Views: 437

Last Post by FBM
on 10/22/15 9:50 AM

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but this work was sidelined throughout the 1930s courtesy of Arthur Eddington’s torpedoes?

Forums: English, Esl, Grammar, English As A Second Language

Question by oristarA
Posted 10/20/15 10:29 AM

Replies: 3
Views: 444

Last Post by Tes yeux noirs
on 10/20/15 12:25 PM

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Does "had" here mean "had as a feature"?

Forums: English, Esl, Grammar, English As A Second Language

Question by oristarA
Posted 10/19/15 10:37 PM

Replies: 3
Views: 409

Last Post by InfraBlue
on 10/20/15 7:40 AM

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Does "comes of age" here refer to "arrives at long last"?

Forums: English, Esl, Grammar, English As A Second Language

Question by oristarA
Posted 10/19/15 8:16 PM

Replies: 2
Views: 397

Last Post by oristarA
on 10/19/15 10:11 PM

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