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jeffkim1972
Joined: 10 Jan 2007
Location: Mokpo
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 Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 7:42 am Post subject: In secret or secretly |
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I took drugs in secret.
i took drugs secretly.
is it:
in secret = in a secret place
secretly = in a secret manner |
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monkinwonderland
Joined: 17 May 2007
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| Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 7:58 am Post subject: |
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| you shouldn't take drugs, man |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 8:05 am Post subject: |
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They held a meeting in secret rather than open forum.
They secretly held a meeting, parking blocks away from the site. |
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Woland
Joined: 10 May 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 2:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Go to www.lextutor.ca and enter the two in the concordancer program, with the corpus set to "all of the above" to get a sample of the actual usage of each in order to work out what the differences are. |
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passport220
Joined: 14 Jun 2006
Location: Gyeongsangbuk-do province
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| Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 3:57 pm Post subject: |
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| As a grammar incompetent it seems they are equally correct the choice of usage is just a matter of style. |
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kimchi story
Joined: 23 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 5:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Woland wrote: |
| Go to www.lextutor.ca and enter the two in the concordancer program, with the corpus set to "all of the above" to get a sample of the actual usage of each in order to work out what the differences are. |
That is an awesome site, thanks Woland. |
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