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 Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2009 11:39 pm Post subject: |
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Well, "They were pretty shocked" is okay, meaning, "They were fairly shocked."
"They had a pretty shock" doesn't mean the same thing, but if a skilled writer were to put that in the right place in a story or article, it could be a nice phrasing.
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