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Old 16-Feb-2008, 17:35
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Default Re: Potential or Potentials

We do not say 'potentials'.
The dictionaries you are using are not exactly helpful on this occasion. Potential is an adjective meaning powerful, possible or likely. When we say that A has the potential to do well in his exams we should be saying A has the potentiality (n) to do well, or, A has potentially (adv) the ability to do well.
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