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The devastation that they have undergone is unspeakable. I heard that there is a very common "greeting" among the survivors of the earthquake. "How many people in your family have died?"
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I vote for "10 more minutes" for this case. All the following sound about the same for me in the above situation. You have 10 minutes. You have 10 minutes left. You have 10 more minutes.However, "two minutes more" sounds more natural to me in the following case: ...
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Doesn't "fine" refer to the money that you have to pay? You were fined by the policeman. You faced a fine. You were liable to a fine. The court ordered a fine. The court fined you. But "the policeman/court gave you a fine" sounds like the policeman/court gave you the...
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I guess "they" refers to the friend who is going to build the product. (There is a disagreement in plurality here.) The friend is concerned if the company is really going to buy the product according to the information that the "I" collected. ("I" means Sarunnio?)...
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Are you talking about something like what the banks use to send you your PIN? Those are called "tamper-evident laser-printed PIN mailers", but for a voting slip, this term certainly does not apply. But why the voting slip needs to be "non-show-through"? Don't you mark...
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Please allow me to add my two cents. The purpose of qualifying customers is very simple: don't waste your time on (potential) customers that won't buy from you now! If your product will cost them 1 million and they have only 100K budget or they are planning to buy 1 year later, why...
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Thanks, Osee. That's also the question in my mind. I just found from the dictionaries that juice can be used to mean anything from electrical power, petrol, personal influence, creative energy, strength, essence, etc., etc. This is quite surprising to me.
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Yes, this also happens to me. I have been receiving notifications from Vocabulary and Idioms, Speech and Pronunciation, but never from General English Grammar.
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"Proposition" is very often used by sales people in a sense like "a business proposal that brings benefit to you". But as Mr M has mentioned, a formal presentation or document is often called a proposal, not proposition.
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Hi GG,As always, I am so glad to hear your comments! Now I know it is just my pickiness in avoiding the use of "dead" in normal cases.
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