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How to avoid using I's so frequently
Since you have mentioned experiments—scientific writing tends to use passive constructions that omit the doer. You can readily avoid the first person in that kind of writing. …
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Addresses in USA
In the US, an apartment in a high-rise is almost always addressed by a simple number (e.g. 1204) or a number with an alpha suffix (e.g. 12C):
{addressee}
{building number on the street} {street name …
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What is a better way to write X increases as Y increases?
You could say:
As Y increases so does X.
As pressure increases so does temperature.
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"As I get old", "As I get older", "As I am getting old", "As I am getting older"
The nuanced difference between the simple present and the continuous is one of emphasis; the continuous conveys the sense of action-in-progress. The difference is much diluted when the verbs themselve …
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Which of these sentences is better to say a dog had it's leg removed?
The verb is amputate, the noun, amputation. The dog had its leg amputated.
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is a sentence used to introduce a step in a long essay considered fragment?
Improving memory
Getting enough sleep
Whether you can do this really depends on the nature of the text you're writing. A "long essay" is very vague. …
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Is it okay to finish an informal letter with "that's it for now"?
"That's it for now" is synonymous with "That's all I have [to say, to report] for now". Perfectly legit.
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Are double parenthesis orthographically correct?
You could also use em-dashes to set off a parenthetic phrase:
Your sister —the one who is 19 years old— is very beautiful.
or to append an afterthought:
Your sister is very beautiful — the one who …
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Using literary present when there's a sequence of events
You can mix the present and present perfect:
Tobe continues to stay with Miss Emily even after she has murdered Homer
Barron and slept with his corpse.
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Can I use "the %whatever% one" and particularly "the other one" in IELTS Academic writing?
Insofar as it relies upon a conversational context, and possibly upon body language, the construction is ill-suited to writing that is not conversational in nature.
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Using Capital letter for a word in a sentence I want to put emphasis on?
Uppercase and italics are typical ways of emphasizing a word or phrase:
Please deliver this ON TIME.
Please deliver this on time.
Emphasizing "assignment" or "this" gets you nothing—is there someth …
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" ...syntactically, being rather a matter of pragmatics, dependent... " - Can we delete 'bei...
Consider:
The leaking pipes in the basement were not touched by the carpenter, being rather a matter for the plumber.
The participial clause ascribes to the noun-phrase subject in the matrix clause …
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Which (if any) of these three alternative sentence constructions is most understandable for ...
The span parameters determine how far from the respective margins the region where it is possible for ore deposits to be centered extends.
The span parameters establish boundaries for determining …
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The right word for search with looking over something in cursory way
Your question has the earmarks of a bilingual dictionary that lacks nuance:
hidden reason = motive ?
greed = desire?
life right now = the present moment?
Since you use the words "fumble" and "stum …
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