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... asked . Ask a Chinese person if he or she has eaten , and he or she might say chrle ( eaten already ) or perhaps meiyou ( have not ) . Ask , " So you had insurance at the time of the accident ? " and the response would be dwei ( correct ) ...
... asked . Ask a Chinese person if he or she has eaten , and he or she might say chrle ( eaten already ) or perhaps meiyou ( have not ) . Ask , " So you had insurance at the time of the accident ? " and the response would be dwei ( correct ) ...
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... asked the publicist if she had been interested in the information the pro- ducer had given her . “ Oh , yes , ” she answered . But then she thought a moment and said , “ Well , maybe he did go on a bit . ” The next day she told me , “ I ...
... asked the publicist if she had been interested in the information the pro- ducer had given her . “ Oh , yes , ” she answered . But then she thought a moment and said , “ Well , maybe he did go on a bit . ” The next day she told me , “ I ...
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... asked him about his work and , in response to his answer , asked whether there has been a return in contempo- rary art to figurative painting . In response to my question , he told me a lot about the history of art — so much that when ...
... asked him about his work and , in response to his answer , asked whether there has been a return in contempo- rary art to figurative painting . In response to my question , he told me a lot about the history of art — so much that when ...
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Simplicity WILLIAM ZINSSER | 13 |
Freewriting PETER ELBOW | 19 |
Revising Your Own Manuscript | 28 |
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