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"The Change of the Characteristics in the passage from The Hours " The passage from the novel The Hours by Michael Cunningham is intriguing. The passage illustrates the difference between the character's characteristics in different time settings: past and present. This difference is...

1) Are my sentences correct but with a different meaning? I didn't quite get the nuance between the 2 prepositions. Would you please explain the difference again? a) "The plays had been / were performed THROUG H OUT the next ten years"-- many times /every year in that period b) "He had...

Dear teachers, Would you please help me with the following difficuties? 1) Are my sentences correct but with a different meaning? I didn't quite get the nuance between the 2 prepositions. Would you please explain the difference again? a) "The plays had been / were (?) performed...

Tung Quoc wrote: He said despite being ultimately owned by pension fund members, who have a long-term investment horizon , companies feel under constant and immediate pressure to perform. 1/ What is the meaning of horizon in this context? 2/ Is feel under constant an expression?...

There are several rules governing the use of commas, but there is also a lot freedom. Webster's Third New International Dictionary begins their article on commas with: Of all the marks of punctuation the comma offers the most difficulty in use and the widest range for individual choice. Though...

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Hi, Context: After a party, a woman is chatting with a friend about the party she went to the previous day: "I have met vary many people at the party." More natural is 'I met a lot of people at the party'. 'Very many' does not work here. 'Many' is mainly used in the negative. 'I didn't...

Sir, IV - The present prefect used with "for" and "since" A. "for" is used with a period of time: for six days, for a long time. "for" is used with the simple past tense denotes a terminated period of time. (e.g) We lived there for ten years. ( but we don't live there now) "for"...

"in a long time" and a few similar expressions, e.g., "in a long while", "in a dog's age", "in ages" are restricted to the idea of time in the past extending to the present moment. They are therefore restricted to use with the perfect tenses and used almost exclusively with the present perfect....