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Nov 24, 2010. #7. Love the Google fight thing! Presumably people get confused because a double consonant usually produces a short vowel sound, like 'loped' vs. 'lopped' or 'hoped' vs 'hopped', whereas with 'developed' the vowel sound is short despite having only one p. (NB: I don't pronounce the vowels identically in 'developed' and 'lopped ...
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Jul 1, 2018. #1. Hi, I would please ask you which of the options in bold is correct in the following (I prefer the present perfect): I developed/have developed an interest in machine learning over the course of my academic and professional career, and while consulting for multinational companies such as X Inc. and Y Inc. Last edited: Jul 1, 2018.
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Sep 18, 2006. #2. nichol said: We all know "to be developed. to be announced. to be changed " is the correct usage in English. But nowadays I often see "to be develop, to be announce ...." without ed .
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English English. Aug 5, 2009. #2. Yes, but it completely changes the meaning. have developed = the flowers have evolved/mutated from the forest originals without human intervention. have been developed = horticulturalists have bred them. Last edited: Aug 5, 2009.
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British English. Nov 3, 2010. #2. Both are grammatically correct but, because "to cartridge" is so unfamiliar as a verb, I prefer the first. "... developed for dynamite to be cartridged by paper-wrapping..." - This makes it absolutely clear that "cartridge is a verb". The hyphen in paper-wrapping is also necessary for the same sort of reason. or.
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2012年10月6日 · dornam said: I am trying to find a synonym for the construction "I developed an interest in X because...". Is it okay to say something like this: "X holds my interest because..." ? The first one is about why you first started to like X while the second is why you continue to like X after some time. They could be very different reasons.
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2016年1月5日 · I often see sentences like "China has developed rapidly" or "China has been developing rapidly." Can I also say "China has been developed rapidly." ?
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2009年10月4日 · Senior Member. English UK. Oct 4, 2009. #3. fellowcoco said: Can anyone explain why active voice should be used instead of passive voice in the following sentence? Chicago has developed into a big city since the late 1800s. Think of the active version as "develop into" with the meaning "become". As in:
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french. Dec 27, 2010. #1. hi ! i don't understand why we say "develoPed" and not "develoPPed" ? i mean, normally if the verb ends with a consonnant , this same consonnant is supposed to be double when followed by a vowel ... can you light please light my path... and by the way Merry X-mas to you all. L.
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2016年5月9日 · Proficiency is a higher degree of expertise than competence. Which do you want to say? As for the choice between developed and gained: Use either. The choice is a matter of style. I lean a bit toward developed, since it carries more of a suggestion that you made an effort rather than something just happening, but it's not a big difference. M.