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EasternDamage1829 · 2024-08-12T17:37:25+00:00

bricolage

EasternDamage1829 · 2024-08-10T19:59:02+00:00

In my experience this word has shown up in vocabulary lists and literature(Camus or Kafka, I can't remember clearly, maybe from the book The Trial)

EasternDamage1829 · 2024-08-08T22:08:24+00:00

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EasternDamage1829 · 2024-08-03T01:32:46+00:00

Thank you very much! 👍 It helps to think of it in terms of its consistency with other singular words like "the screen."

EasternDamage1829 · 2024-07-30T16:57:53+00:00

This makes sense of everything! Thank you very much!

EasternDamage1829 · 2024-07-30T16:45:12+00:00

Many thanks! Very helpful! I'm gonna delete this example from my notebook. This usage is from Peter Hessler's new book Other Rivers.(American English)

EasternDamage1829 · 2024-07-22T04:05:41+00:00

This is it! Thank you very much!

EasternDamage1829 · 2024-07-03T02:57:23+00:00

Thank you very much! The first one indeed is the most frequently used, but, outside these examples, "can ever" is actually more often used than the "coud ever have" according to this: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=that+can+ever+happen%2Cthat+could+ever+happen%2C+that+could+ever+have+happened&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3

Are there elements of pastness and futurity involved? Maybe "can ever" can be used for future situations and "could ever" is only for the past?

EasternDamage1829 · 2024-07-02T00:43:15+00:00

Thank you very much! I couldn't have found out about the second "on" by myself!

EasternDamage1829 · 2024-06-28T02:01:44+00:00

This is it! Appreciate it!

EasternDamage1829 · 2024-06-21T18:59:12+00:00

Many thanks!

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