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how good is your relationship with them?
The question of how pronouns get referred to noun phrases is a deep one in linguistics. Certainly it isn't governed by any simple grammar rule, and you always have to consider the meaning of the ...
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told me about the way
They all convey the same meaning, but they are quite odd sentences to use.
"the way" = "how"
Although b, c and d do have a overa difference compared to a
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in "its battery pack restricted cargo space", is the battery or cargo space limited?
When I originally read the sentence, I thought that "battery-pack-restricted" was being used as a compound adjective and was missing the dashes (battery-pack-restricted cargo space). I had ...
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