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Thank you all - brilliant. Good to know I was just overthinking the whole thing.
Out of interest, would there be a linguistic term for such a substitution?
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Yes - more or less. Laboratory implies that the room will be used to analyse the X-Rays after they've been taken . Technically, using the word 'room' implies only that the X-Rays will be *taken* in there, not procressed/analysed as well.
But it's really a technicality - no-one...
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Yes - on an interpretationary level it means the same thing: 'for' references the person who will be given a reward because he offered help, and 'to' does the same.
Linguistically, however, they aren't as equal. Whereas 'for' doesn't require explanation with a...
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I absolutely agree, but - for a learner who probably doesn't have a fine understanding of nuance - perhaps it's always better to err on the side of over-formality?
Personally I'd always do that anyway myself: there's something very British about writing in such an 'of the...
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Grossly informal for most things, however.
Formal letter writing should always be addressed 'Dear Sir' in such cases of ambiguity - not even 'Dear Sir/Madam'.
Gender equality might be a quaint philosophy to live by, but it doesn't hold up in the archaic world or written...
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Fine - apart from the comma in b, which should be:
'I'm so glad! What a relief. The design of the control system has been troubling me, and sometimes when I look at the equations I wonder why the second variable is a function of y2.'
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Many thanks for the response, but I'm not sure how it can be correct - and this is almost entirely my fault for not setting out an example well enough.
In the coffin quotation, I believe that it can't simply be a subjunctive mood form because, by inserting 'we thought' into it,...
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Not at all.
'but' sounds more natural because you're dealing with a sentence with a negative implication: 'I see it used but I'm challenging why it is.'
If you were to agree with it, 'and' can be used - in a sentence such as 'I see it used and I'm sure...
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Mostly not wrong, but more natural versions would be:
(a) A car drove through the puddle and splashed water on to Jenny's uniform. She was sad because it had made her dirty and wet.
(b) Jenny's uniform had become dirty and wet. She was ashamed because she had to go to school with it...
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What you've written isn't 'wrong', per se, but a far more natural version would be:
'It's been troubling me because I sometimes see the past tense being used, but always wonder why.'
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