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sejpdw
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Location: Korea
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 Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 6:48 pm Post subject: vocabulary / vocabularies |
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"Research suggests that the best way of building your vocabulary is by seeing words in context and the obvious way to do that is to read as often as you can."
In this setence, "your vocabularies" is possible?
In a dictionary, vocabularies is a plural form of vocabulary.
I don't know exactly the usage and meaning of "vocabulary" and "vocabularies". Please tell me about that with examples. |
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angelwing
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| Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 7:29 pm Post subject: |
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Vocabulary means all the words that a person knows or all the words used by a work. Vocabularies would refer to two group of words known by two or more people, or used by two or more different works.
"I have a strong vocabulary."
"We have strong vocabularies."
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