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How do you call this?
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Do Native Speakers Ever Use These Rare English Words?
Hi! I’d like to ask native English speakers, do you actually use words like perspicacious, perspicuous, propitiatory, lachrymose, propinquity, or sacrosanctity in your daily life? I’m an English major, so I have to memorize a lot of vocabulary, but I find these kinds of words really hard to retain. They don’t seem to appear very often in magazines, books, or other common texts either. Do you have any advice on how to remember such rare words effectively? Thank you in advance!
What do you call?
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Would you say that phrase "a couple of years ago" refers to exactly 2 years?
I always thought that people mean small undefined number when they use this phrase. But apparently it refers to exactly 2 years. Is that how most people use this phrase?
What will you fill the blank?
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Hi native speakers, would you say this is a difficult test?
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Hello native speakers, I have a random and possibly stupid question for you
So you're reading a novel as in the picture, you get to the underlined sentence, do you read it as "she spotted thirty five forty eight..." Or "she spotted three thousand five hundred forty eight" or even "three five four eight" I know it may be a very dumb question, but where I live address numbers never reach four digits, also it's 3.20 am and I'm tired, and a bit distracted, even though I could have (and possibly should have) known it was an address by the context, it slipped my mind and only got back to me at the word "curb", so I read it as the whole "three thousand..." And for some reason it sounded very weird to me, maybe I'm just tripping and need to go to sleep lol. Also does it vary depending on if you're in the US, GB, etc?
Why is the answer to Question 20 not “A”?
I thought he is fast because he was running?
someone please explain this to me😭
this is the second time i've made this exact same mistake before but like i don't get it, why is it "are having"?
Does this handwriting look readable to you? Because I would’ve barely understood a word if I didn’t know the context. And still I can barely read a half of it
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