Questions tagged [repetition]
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Same word used multiple times in a sentence
Sentences like the following sound strange to me, and I somehow "feel" they are incorrect.
I will be in the room in 10 minutes.
I will go to New York to meet my friend.
Is it correct to use the ...
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Redundant prepositions?
This is a tooltip in an application:
Identifies the site name to which the GL code belongs to.
Can I say that it is incorrect to use "to" twice here and we should remove 1 of them?
Other examples:...
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Rules for repeating "to"
I often don't know whether I should repeat the "to". E.g.:
To enable the car to perform jumps between blocks or simply to go
faster, accelerator blocks can be placed, which as the name
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Repeating “will” for two verbs with “and”
I wanted to check if the phrase:
The religious vandalism will spread and will contaminate many.
is correct according to English language grammar,
or whether the correct sentence is:
The ...
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"All of these things are not beneficial and (they) do not help her"
Should I mention the pronoun again in this case?
"All of these things are not beneficial and (they?) do not
help her"
I know that there is already answer about the question "if it's needed to ...
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Can I omit the second “is” in “is… and is…”?
What is the correct syntax:
This column is a primary key and null.
or
This column is a primary key and is null.
Should I write is again?
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"the most X" or "most of the X" in this sentence
I wrote:
In the worst case, when the most patterns are defined using either “Parent” or “Common Ancestor” options, a sub-tree of the DOM-tree must be revisited after visiting some nodes, which are ...
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Into and out of 'time out' for kids
Interested in the language of this disciplinary technique, I read on the Internet that children can be in time out but I was also looking for how to tell a child that they are in time out and when ...
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How to avoid the repetition of "of"?
I work in marketing and I often have to present results of analysis.
The problem is my sentences often contain a lots of "of" !
How can I avoid the repetition in this kind of sentence :
10 % of the ...
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