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Pronoun - it

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Cannot refer to action. W Ex - Polar ice caps have melted and it is resulting in rising sea level.

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That

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When the word “that” appears just after a working verb, it acts as a “re-set” button in the sentence: a new subject-verb-object structure will follow. Ex - The teacher is confident that her students mastered the lessons

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More vs Greater

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More is used for countable nouns and uncountable nouns that are not numbers themselves. Greater is used for numbers. Ex - percent, likelihood

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Less vs fewer

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Fewer refers to a specific number while less refers to a continuous quantity. Ex - There was less devastation than I was told

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Random

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Made Possible by
Isolated from
Agreed to
Awarded x
Awareness of
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Dated

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Dated at

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Just as

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Just as .. so

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Declared

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declared X Y. Ex - The reviewer declared the book a masterpiece

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from

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from..to

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total

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Total to, totalling about, a total of

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Ability

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Ability to

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between

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between a and b

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did not..

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X did not do Y, and instead did Z.

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Parallel Idioms

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Distinguish x from y
Think of x as y
Consider x y
Estimate x to be y
View x as y
Mistake x for y
whether x or y
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