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Does this sentence sound fine? "Because of its transparency, we hardly see the problem"
P. E. Dant suggests this:
Just as we rarely notice the air we breathe, we rarely notice the medium of language as we speak. It must be embedded in our lives to be useful, but because it is as tran …
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Does this sound fine? "Because the one who is willing to do an arduous task for a person is ...
Getting to the root of the problem and make it worth knowing is an arduous task. It takes time, but it's worth it. Because the one who is willing to do an arduous task for a person is the one who r …
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Does this sentence sound fine? "Because of its transparency, we hardly see the problem"
I am writing about the importance of learning English vocabulary, and I have this idea:
Just like the air, language as a medium is rarely noticed when we use it. It needs to be embedded into our d …
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How should this sentence be improved? "When an already-understanding person explains to a no...
Would there be a less clumsy word to describe a person who already understand a subject/topic/problem and a person who haven't yet? The full sentence would be:
When an already-understanding person …
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How to use "outperforms" in a comparative structure?
In your hand every day is a device that a thousand times outperforms the computer that drove Apollo 11 landing on the Moon, yet hardly one acknowledges it, let alone fully appreciate it.
So far I …
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How to understand "things flying through the air experience drag because of the momentum of ...
In the article Weightless Arrow from the What If? book, I meet this sentence:
That means things flying through the air experience drag because of the momentum of the air they're shoving out of the …
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