Please explain "in talent". Can it be replaced with another prepositional phrase to express the same meaning?
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Every student tries his best to compete in talent with his classmates at school\n\nIT means some will resort to cheating to keep up.
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Differences in patterns are a result of common useage that is eventually accepted. Living languages are alive and growing. They also grow, shrink and change through the years.\n\nWe also say "in the house" and "at home." ..."in the factory or job" and "at work" "in the building, and "at school." These prepositions are not interchangeable in the sentences but the nouns means the same things. If you do something wrong, are you "at trouble?"
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b) is closer. But better if it reads :-\nalways think twice before acting or think twice before acting
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A preposition is a word that shows position. A list: in, on, before, after, under, over, out, beside etc.
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nothing!...it's non-sense...something like "Oh look at him! He's an attractive frog-man" (!?!?!?)...but that's after doing a bit of interpreting since the grammar is all scr*wed up!
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Can you use it in a sentence?
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They're not quite the same. The infinitive in the first sentence definitely looks into the future and talks about the possibility that an event will happen.\n\nThe second sentence is strange in present tense, but if you said 'You were mostly likely robbed...' I would understand that you were robbed and the police officer is speculating on the time.\n\n'These buildings are likely to be built on a solid rock foundation' - they are not built yet but they will probably be built on a solid rock foundation.\n\n'These buildings are most likely built on a solid rock foundation' - they are built and I'm looking at them and speculation about the bedrock.
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The previous answerer gave a good answer, but unfortunately he used the same phrase in answering the question about "in time", so I'll just answer that one.\n\nTo do something "in time" means that you were able to respond at the right moment before something undesirable happened.\n\nFor example: My daughter was climbing on the counter and I saw that she was going to fall.  I ran over and caught her just in time before she hit the floor.
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Firstly, for 1), you mis-spelled one of the words. The third word should be inculcate -- to impress on somebody's mind: to fix something firmly in somebody's mind through frequent, forceful repetition.\n\n1) Strengthen & Debilitate. (A) The two words are antonyms of each other, since they mean opposite things. (Debilitate means to weaken, which is obviously the opposite of strengthen!).\n\n2) Corrosive & Caustic. (S) The two words are synonmys of each other. In chemistry, the two words mean the same thing: "able to destroy something progressively by chemical action".\n\n3) Munificent & Parsimonious. (A). The two words mean opposite things. Munificent is very generous in giving a lot of money, while parsimonious means very frugal (spends very little or none at all) or ungenerous.\n\n4) Duplicitous & Forthright. (A). The two words mean opposite things. Duplicitous means the fact of being deceptive, dishonest, or misleading, while forthright means direct in speech or manner and very honest.\n\n& finally,\n\n5) The two words that most closely form a pair of synonyms or antonyms are Ouster & Emissary. But, technically speaking, given the definitions of the 4 words, none of the words qualifies as a synonym or antonym of any of the others. Make sure you have correctly copied down the group of words for this one.\n\nI hope this helps. Good luck to you in all your endeavours. Take very good care and have yourself a most joyous day, every day.\n\n\nLove And Light\nCogano
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Isn't an oxymoron to use hip hop and talent in the same sentence.
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Break the sentence down into its parts:\n\nOne (subject)\nof the areas (prepositional phrase)\nof multimedia (prepositional phrase)\nthat is growing fast (prepositional phrase)\nthat is easily overlooked (prepositional phrase)\nis (verb)\nsound (object)\n\nIn this case 'that is easily overlooked' is modifying 'one of the areas of multimedia'.  It could work this way.\n\nYou could also say "One of the areas of multimedia that is growing *so* fast that it is easily overlooked is sound"\n\nIn this case the 'that it is easily overlooked' is modifying the phrase 'that is growing so fast'\n\nHowever, this whole sentence is rather verbose and I might rewrite it into a couple sentences to make your point clearer.  Why is sound overlooked?  Is it because it is growing so fast?  Or are you stating a fact that sound is just an area of multimedia that is easily overlooked?
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without sounding stupid - I'd say it means effective organizational skills
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Talent is something you were genetically born with that you can develop to become better at. Such as a musically talented person. If you were not born with any musical talent you cannot create it.You might be able to mimic someone else but true talent is born. A talent for talking to people, yes you can be educated in this field, but there are people who are just natural born conversationalists. Luck,is something that happens by chance, a draw of straws or roll of the dice or cards. You can  control it to a point. Depending on the variables involved. In someways luck is how some people see natural born talent because it was left up to chance how the genes arranged themselves to create this person. Others see it as a gift from GOD and see it as planned.
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I would use similar language, but not word for word.  When I am looking at resumes, I do notice that.  Just key in on how your skills and experience are similar to what's in the job description or advertisement.
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I have never heard of this rule before, and I'm a grammar teacher, so I don't think anyone will get mad if you violate it.\n\nHowever, the form of your sentence that would fit the rule would be: "Come to Manchester, in which we will meet some interesting people."\n\nIt doesn't really do anything for me, either.
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It seems to be multipurpose.\nSometimes it's tagged on at the end of a mixed metaphor, oxymoron or clumsy analogy, to signify "Okay, I acknowledge that's not quite the best expression, but you know what I was trying to get across".  Sort of like "...if you will excuse the faulty expression for the sake of brevity."   \nI've also head it used in the same context as "if you please", as a way to show respect or consideration. \nI'm guessing that in other languages, "if you will" might be used quite rampantly for any number of situations, and when these speakers learn English as a second language they may naturally use the phrase in whatever context they would in their native language.   Perhaps this is how it's gaining popularity, and why sometimes it seems a little jarring in its application.
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because sometimes those words are not exact quotes.  Sometimes the words in [] are only implied.  for example if you saw "i loved [the cast].  they were great to work with"...  the actual quote may have been "i loved them.  they were great to work with"