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She has rented a flat for two years.

No problem.

She has bought a flat.

No problem.

She has bought a flat for two years.

Still not entirely clear. Quite possible in speech, but not really acceptable in writing.

I am afraid that, from the way I read it, "for suppose" is being used as a substitute for "let's suppose" on the analogy of "for example" or "for instance" rather than "for" as a reasoning link with "suppose" as the start of a separate unit. The saving grace is that it can actually be read in the se...

Metanalysis, coined in 1914 by Otto Jespersen, can be broadly defined as 'a reinterpretation of the division between words or syntactic units'. Because of "A/AN" this type only happens with words that used to begin with an "N" transferring the "N" to the article, or words that had an initial vowel t...

Whose (the possessive of 'who') is usually confined to people.

I'd quite like "The union in which. . . " or "by means of which" but they're not options.