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hda
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 Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 7:38 am Post subject: questions |
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Hello, dear tutor,
Could you, please, solve my questions?
Is the following sentence correct?
"Decide on what the main goal of the research is."
Is there a phrasal verb for Decide?
Can I say: " Pick out the food we are goint to take to the picknick."
Can I use carry instead of take?
Which verb should I use to mean I want to wash my dog?
Bathe, shower, wash?[/b] |
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bud
Joined: 09 Mar 2003
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Location: New Jersey, US
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Is the following sentence correct?
"Decide on what the main goal of the research is."
Is there a phrasal verb for Decide? |
It's good.
Do you mean is "decide on" a phrasal verb? I'm not sure, but I think so.
Or do you mean is there a phrasal verb that would serve as a synonym? "Figure out" is a close replacement for "decide on."
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Can I say: " Pick out the food we are goint to take to the picknick."
Can I use carry instead of take? |
It's good.
"Carry" doesn't work well, in my opinion, because it doesn't specify that it is your food contribution that you are carrying.
By the way, it is spelled "picnic." When you add "-ing" or "-ed," then you add a "k" to preserve the ending "hard c" sound: picnic, picnicking, picnicked.
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Which verb should I use to mean I want to wash my dog?
Bathe, shower, wash? |
"Bathe" is the most common, and so probably the best choice. The others sound a bit odd to me. |
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