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‘put asid' is more formal than ‘postpone’, OK.
Columbine had stated otherwise and did so correctly. Phrasal verbs are always less formal than their one-word synonyms
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Jambo, thank you!
Writing English without making mistakes seems to be almost impossible to me.
I wouldn't worry too much about it. Your Written (or typed. lol) English is very, very good.

@Columbine - Forgive my incorrect English. The highest level I got in school was Intermediate 2. Tbh, I found English boring, unless we were reading a play in class. Different people in the class got different parts, and I enjoyed that And also, my daily use of Scots perhaps make it a tad harder, although I'm just looking for excuses now


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Columbine had stated otherwise and did so correctly. Phrasal verbs are always less formal than their one-word synonyms
あれ、反対だった!?…

"Postpone is more formaler than put asaide". ですね。

組長、thanks!!!


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I wouldn't worry too much about it. Your Written (or typed. lol) English is very, very good.
Thank you very, very much!!


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Hi. Columbine.
Thank you for explaining in detail.
No problem!

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‘put asid' is more formal than ‘postpone’, OK.
"put aside" is ~less~ formal than 'postpone'.

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I see.
When speaking in Japanese, we drop many words; so we have a lot of troubles when speaking in theoretical English.
I’ll try harder … ""^_^""
大丈夫ですよ〜 I know the feeling. It's difficult for me to use less words when i speak Japanese too. Exactly the opposite problem!

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I wouldn't worry too much about it. Your Written (or typed. lol) English is very, very good.

@Columbine - Forgive my incorrect English. The highest level I got in school was Intermediate 2. Tbh, I found English boring, unless we were reading a play in class. Different people in the class got different parts, and I enjoyed that And also, my daily use of Scots perhaps make it a tad harder, although I'm just looking for excuses now
Don't worry about it. I only know this stuff in such detail because I'm actively studying it, and when I'm not sure I do have a whole shelf of grammar books I can refer to.

For the record, perfect tenses are my re-occurring nightmare at the moment! I actually dreamt about teaching them last night. For some reason my students could only read English, not hear it, so I was trying to write it on the whiteboard for them, only my pen wouldn't work. So frustrating!
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Don't worry about it. I only know this stuff in such detail because I'm actively studying it, and when I'm not sure I do have a whole shelf of grammar books I can refer to.

For the record, perfect tenses are my re-occurring nightmare at the moment! I actually dreamt about teaching them last night. For some reason my students could only read English, not hear it, so I was trying to write it on the whiteboard for them, only my pen wouldn't work. So frustrating!
Seems it's a nationwide problem, whiteboard pens not working... lol


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Don't worry about it. I only know this stuff in such detail because I'm actively studying it, and when I'm not sure I do have a whole shelf of grammar books I can refer to.

For the record, perfect tenses are my re-occurring nightmare at the moment! I actually dreamt about teaching them last night. For some reason my students could only read English, not hear it, so I was trying to write it on the whiteboard for them, only my pen wouldn't work. So frustrating!

Hello there-- I did suspect that perhaps you were in the midst of studying in order to teach. It must be hard going at times-- I hope it will all be worthwhile for you. good luck in the future.
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Hello there-- I did suspect that perhaps you were in the midst of studying in order to teach. It must be hard going at times-- I hope it will all be worthwhile for you. good luck in the future.
I'm in the middle of my finals so it's been pretty tough. Just one more week to go!
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10-26-2010, 08:53 AM

Could someone help me out?


I’d call on her in the morning, and she would look at the calendar.”

I think “I’d” is “I would”. Is that right?
And it means like “When I call on her (in the morning), she looks at the calendar”, right?
If so, why the writer didn’t write “she’d” instead of “she would”?
Is there a rule that you can’t use “ ‘d” two times in a sentence?
If I write “I’d call on her in the morning, and she’d look at the calendar”, is it odd?


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